{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicles-crime-act-2001/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicles-crime-act-2001/section-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2001/3",
  "legislation_title": "Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicles-crime-act-2001",
  "path": "section/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Provision of information on sale of registration plates",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by regulations provide for the obtaining by registered persons who are in the course of selling registration plates of information of a prescribed description from their prospective purchasers before the completion of the sale.\n(2) Regulations under this section may specify provisions of the regulations as provisions to which subsection (3) applies.\n(3) A person who contravenes any provision to which this subsection applies shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(4) In proceedings for an offence under subsection (3) it shall be a defence for the accused to show that he took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 25(3) applied (1.8.2008) by Vehicles Crime (Registration of Registration Plate Suppliers) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1715), regs. 1, 6(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 25 wholly in force; s. 25 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 44; Pt. 2 (ss. 17-31) of the Act in force for certain purposes at 1.12.2002, s. 25(1)(2) otherwise in force at 1.1.2003 and s. 25(3)(4) otherwise in force at 1.3.2003 by S.I. 2002/2957, arts. {2}, {3}, {4}"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/3/section/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:20:15.084371+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."
}