{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicles-crime-act-2001/section-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicles-crime-act-2001/section-29.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2001/3",
  "legislation_title": "Vehicles (Crime) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicles-crime-act-2001",
  "path": "section/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Offence of supplying plates etc. to unregistered persons",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) supplies a plate, device or other object to an unregistered person (other than an exempt person) who is carrying on a business which consists wholly or partly in selling registration plates; and\n(b) knows or reasonably suspects that the plate, device or other object will be used for the purposes of that other person’s business (or part of his business) as a registration plate or as part of a registration plate;\nshall be guilty of an offence.\n(2) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 29 wholly in force; s. 29 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 and s. 29 otherwise in force at 1.3.2003 by S.I. 2002/2957, arts. {2}, {4}"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/3/section/29",
    "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."
}