{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1980/section-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1980/section-42.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/34",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1980",
  "path": "section/42",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Defences available to persons charged with certain offences.",
  "text": "(1) It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under any of the provisions mentioned in subsection (2) to prove that there was a reasonable excuse for the act or omission in respect of which he is charged.\n(2) The provisions referred to in subsection (1) are—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) in the 1960 Act—\ni), (ii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iii) so much of section 232(3) as relates to failure to comply with the requirement of section 232(2)(b); and\n(iv) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 42(2)(a)(b)(i)(ii)(iv) repealed by Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 (c. 14, SIF 107:1), s. 88, Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "The “1960 Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1960 (c.16, SIF 107:1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/34/section/42",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:58.910609+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."
}