{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-1967/section-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-1967/section-34.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1967/37",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-1967",
  "path": "section/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Forgery of licences.",
  "text": "If, with intent to deceive, any person—\n(a) . . . alters or uses or lends to, or allows to be used by, any other person, a licence granted under Part II ... [ or any certificate or diploma referred to in section 46D(1) ...] ... or an authorisation or a control document issued under Interbus, the RSR Protocol or the RPT Chapter ;\n(b) makes or has in his possession any document ... so closely resembling any such licence [, certificate, diploma] , authorisation or control document as to be calculated to deceive;\nhe shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable —\n(i)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both such fine and such imprisonment;\n(ii)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, with or without a fine.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "mod. by SR 1987/187, 383"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "SR 1981/2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "1981 c. 45"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 34(a) repealed (1.7.2012) by Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 2), s. 60(2), Sch. 4; S.R. 2012/262, art. 2 (with arts. 4-6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "SR 1977/327"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "SR 2003/217"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "SR 2005/212"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 34(a) substituted (1.4.2025) by The Road Transport (International Passenger Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1370), regs. 1(2), 8(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 34(b) repealed (1.7.2012) by Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 2), s. 60(2), Sch. 4; S.R. 2012/262, art. 2 (with arts. 4-6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 34(b) substituted (1.4.2025) by The Road Transport (International Passenger Services) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1370), regs. 1(2), 8(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "1984 NI 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1967/37/section/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:30:28.525479+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."
}