Rejected petition Make privately owned electric scooters legal to use in public

In the UK, electric scooters are illegal to use on public roads and footpaths.

The council have them available for public hire, to use in public completely legal.

We want the government to change this law, so the people that use them responsibly can use their own.

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If a privately owned electric scooter and a council hired scooter ride along side each other in public, the police can enforce the law against the privately owed scooter, by seizing it, yet the council version is allowed to continue the journey as it is legal.

We are requesting that this law should be amended, so all privately owned electric scooters are legal to use in public, with the common sense of being responsible.

A law with this agenda does not belong in our great country.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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You may wish to sign this petition, which calls for a similar action: "Allow personal e-scooters on public roads for holders of a Category A licence" https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/735952

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Date submitted 21 September 2025
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