{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-2011/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "nia/2011/11",
  "legislation_title": "Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-act-northern-ireland-2011",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Forgery, etc.",
  "text": "(1) A person who, with intent to deceive—\n(a) forges, alters or uses a permit;\n(b) lends to, or allows to be used by, any other person a permit; or\n(c) makes or has in his or her possession any document so closely resembling a permit as to be calculated to deceive,\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both.\n(3) In subsection (1) “forges” means makes a false document in order that it may be used as genuine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 in operation at 5.10.2015 by S.R. 2015/284, art. 2(1), Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nia/2011/11/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:20:52.623933+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."
}