Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994 section 30

Additional liability for keeper of unlicensed vehicle

Section 30 requires courts to impose an additional financial liability on the keeper of a vehicle who is convicted of using or keeping it without a valid vehicle excise licence.

• When the person convicted of keeping or using an unlicensed vehicle is the keeper, the court must order them to pay an additional amount on top of any penalty imposed under section 29.
• The additional amount is calculated at one-twelfth of the annual vehicle excise duty rate for each month, or part of a month, within the relevant period defined by section 31.
• The duty rate used for each month in the calculation is the annual rate that applied at the start of that particular month or part-month.
• The vehicle is assumed to have been in the same duty category throughout the relevant period as it was on either the date of the offence or the date a vehicle licence was last issued, unless the defendant proves it fell into a different category for an entire month or part-month.