{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-excise-and-registration-act-1994/section-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-excise-and-registration-act-1994/section-54.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/54",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Single witness sufficient in certain Scottish proceedings.",
  "text": "In any proceedings in Scotland for an offence under section 29 , 31A or 33 the accused may be convicted on the evidence of one witness.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 54 inserted (19.12.2003) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), s. 19, Sch. 5 para. 15; S.I. 2003/3086, art. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/22/section/54",
    "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."
}