{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-excise-and-registration-act-1994/section-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicle-excise-and-registration-act-1994/section-59.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/59",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Regulations: offences.",
  "text": "(1) A person who contravenes or fails to comply with any regulations under this Act (other than any regulations under section 24, 26, 27 or 28) is guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding—\n(a) in the case of regulations prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State as regulations to which this paragraph applies, level 3 on the standard scale, and\n(b) in any other case, level 2 on the standard scale.\n(3) The prescribing of regulations as regulations to which subsection (2)(a) applies does not affect the punishment for a contravention of, or failure to comply with, the regulations before they were so prescribed.\n(4) Regulations under section 24 or 28 may provide that a person who contravenes or fails to comply with any specified provision of the regulations is guilty of an offence.\n(5) A person guilty of such an offence is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding—\n(a) in the case of regulations under section 24, level 1 on the standard scale, and\n(b) in the case of regulations under section 28, level 3 on the standard scale.\n(6) The Secretary of State may, if he sees fit, compound any proceedings for an offence—\n(a) under subsection (1), or\n(b) under regulations under section 24 or 28.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 59(6) inserted (29.4.1996) by 1996 c. 8, s. 23, Sch. 2 para. 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 59(2)(a) applied (1.9.2001) by S.I. 2001/561, reg. 11(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/22/section/59",
    "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."
}