{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968/section-97ZB",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968/section-97ZB.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1968/73",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 1968",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1968",
  "path": "section/97ZB",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "97ZB",
  "heading": "Supply of recording equipment which is not type-approved",
  "text": "(1) A person commits an offence if the person supplies, as recording equipment which complies with the EU Tachographs Regulation or the AETR, recording equipment in respect of which no appropriate type-approval certificate is in force.\n(2) It is a defence to show that—\n(a) the recording equipment was supplied for export from Great Britain,\n(b) the person had reasonable cause to believe that the recording equipment would not be installed in a vehicle used on a road in Great Britain or would not be so installed until an appropriate type-approval certificate was in force, or\n(c) the person had reasonable cause to believe that the recording equipment would only be installed in a vehicle which was not required under the relevant instrument to have recording equipment installed in it.\n(3) A person who commits an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(4) Nothing in this section affects the validity of a contract or any rights arising under or in relation to a contract.\n(5) In this section—\n“appropriate type-approval certificate” means—\n(a)in relation to recording equipment supplied as complying with the EU Tachographs Regulation, a type-approval certificate—\n(i)issued under the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) Regulations 1980 and the EU Tachographs Regulation, or\n(ii) issued under the equivalent EU Regulation;\n(b)in relation to recording equipment supplied as complying with the AETR, a type approval certificate—\n(i)issued under the Motor Vehicles (Type Approval) Regulations 1980 and the AETR, or\n(ii)issued in another contracting country under the AETR;\n“the equivalent EU Regulation” has the meaning given by section 97(7);\n“relevant instrument”—\n(a)in relation to recording equipment supplied as complying with the EU Tachographs Regulation, means that Regulation;\n(b)in relation to recording equipment supplied as complying with the AETR, means the AETR;\n“supplies” includes—\n(a)sells;\n(b)offers to sell or supply;\n(c)exposes for sale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 97ZA-97ZC inserted (26.3.2019) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(2), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 97ZB(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 36(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 97ZB(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 36(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 97ZB(5) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Drivers' Hours and Tachographs (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/453), regs. 1(3), 36(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/73/section/97ZB",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:29.968251+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}