{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-excise-and-registration-act-1994/section-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-excise-and-registration-act-1994/section-45.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/22",
  "legislation_title": "Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-excise-and-registration-act-1994",
  "path": "section/45",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "45",
  "heading": "False or misleading declarations and information.",
  "text": "(1) A person who in connection with—\n(a) an application for a vehicle licence or a trade licence,\n(b) a claim for a rebate under section 20, or\n(c) an application for an allocation of registration marks,\nmakes a declaration which to his knowledge is either false or in any material respect misleading is guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person who makes a declaration which—\n(a) is required by regulations under this Act to be made in respect of a vehicle which is an exempt vehicle under paragraph 19 of Schedule 2, and\n(b) to his knowledge is either false or in any material respect misleading,\nis guilty of an offence.\n(2A) A person who makes a declaration or statement which—\n(a) is required to be made in respect of a vehicle by regulations under section 22, and\n(b) to his knowledge is either false or in any material respect misleading,\nis guilty of an offence.\n(3) A person who—\n(a) is required by virtue of this Act to furnish particulars relating to, or to the keeper of, a vehicle, and\n(b) furnishes particulars which to his knowledge are either false or in any material respect misleading,\nis guilty of an offence.\n(3A) A person who, in supplying information or producing documents for the purposes of any regulations made under section 61A ... —\n(a) makes a statement which to his knowledge is false or in any material respect misleading or recklessly makes a statement which is false or in any material respect misleading, or\n(b) produces or otherwise makes use of a document which to his knowledge is false or in any material respect misleading,\nis guilty of an offence.\n(3B) A person who—\n(a) with intent to deceive, forges, alters or uses a certificate issued by virtue of section 61A ... ;\n(b) knowing or believing that it will be used for deception lends such a certificate to another or allows another to alter or use it; or\n(c) without reasonable excuse makes or has in his possession any document so closely resembling such a certificate as to be calculated to deceive,\nis guilty of an offence.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, and\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or (except in Scotland) to both.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 45(2A) inserted (29.4.1996) by 1996 c. 8, s. 23, Sch. 2 para. 11(1)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 45(3) inserted (29.4.1996) by 1996 c. 8, s. 23, Sch. 2 para. 11(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 45(3A)(3B) inserted (1.5.1995 with effect as mentioned in Sch. 4 para. 29 of the amending Act) by 1995 c. 4, s. 19, Sch. 4 Pt. IV paras. 24, 29"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 45(3A)(3B) omitted (1.1.2017) by virtue of Finance Act 2014 (c. 26), Sch. 18 paras. 3(a), 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 45 applied (28.7.2000) by 2000 c. 17, s. 20(10)S. 45 applied (1.7.2001) by 2001 c. 9, s. 8(10)(11)(12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 45 excluded (8.2.2007) by Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006 (c. 36), ss. 51(6), 126(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/49",
      "affecting_title": "Road Safety Act 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/49",
      "affecting_title": "Road Safety Act 2006"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2006/49",
      "affecting_title": "Road Safety Act 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/22/section/45",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:01.789117+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."
}