{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1982/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1982/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/49",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-1982",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Forgery and misuse of documents etc.",
  "text": "(1) A person who, with intent to deceive—\n(a) uses or lends to, or allows to be used by, any other person, a document evidencing the authorisation of a person as an authorised inspector; or\n(b) makes or has in his possession any document so closely resembling a document evidencing such an authorisation as to be calculated to deceive; or\n(c) in Scotland, forges or alters a document evidencing such an authorisation;\nshall be liable—\n(i) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years;\n(ii) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In section 169 of the 1972 Act (forgery of documents etc.), in subsection (2) the following paragraphs shall be inserted after paragraph (c)—\n“(cc) any notice removing a prohibition under section 57 of this Act;”\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 23(2) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993, c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1, Pt. XIV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 23(4) repealed (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), s. 83, Sch. 8; S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "The text of ss. 10(2)–(9), 11, 18, 19(1)(3), 20, 21(3)–(5), 22, 23(3)(4), 24, 65, 67, 68, Sch. 4, Sch. 5 paras. 17(2), 20, 21–23 and Sch. 6 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/49/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:48.374130+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."
}