{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicles-excise-act-1971-repealed-191994/schedule-7/paragraph-24",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1971/10",
  "legislation_title": "Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 (Repealed 1.9.1994)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vehicles-excise-act-1971-repealed-191994",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/24",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For section 37(3) there shall be substituted the following subsection—\n“(3) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any regulations under this Act (other than regulations under section . . . 20 or 24) shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction—\n(a) in the case of regulations prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale; and\n(b) in any other case, to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.\n(3A) Regulations under section . . .20 or 24 above may provide that a person who contravenes or fails to comply with any specified provision of the regulations shall be guilty of an offence and a person guilty of such an offence shall be liable on summary conviction—\n(a) in the case of regulations under section . . .20, to a fine not exceeding level 1 on the standard scale; and\n(b) in the case of regulations under section 24, to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(3B) The prescribing of regulations for the purposes of subsection (3)(a) above shall not affect the punishment for a contravention ofor failure to comply with those regulations before they were so prescribed.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 37(3) as set out in para. 24 substituted by Finance Act 1987 (c. 16, SIF 107:2), s. 2, Sch. 1 Pt. III para. 18(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 7 Pt. I para. 24: words in s. 37(3) as set out therein repealed (3.5.1994) by 1994 c. 9, s. 258, Sch. 26 Pt. I(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 7 Pt. I para. 24: words in s. 37(3A) as set out therein repealed (3.5.1994) by 1994 c. 9, s. 258, Sch. 26 Pt. I(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1971/10/schedule/7/paragraph/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:25.629684+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."
}