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Road Transport (Public Passenger Services) Act 2001
119Power to require vehicles or equipment to be inspected
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119 Power to require vehicles or equipment to be inspected
and tested
(1) A police officer or authorised person may, by written notice given to
the operator of a public passenger vehicle, or any other vehicle that
the police officer or authorised person believes, on reasonable
grounds, is operating, or has operated, as a public passenger vehicle,
require the person to have the vehicle and its equipment and fittings
(or stated equipment) inspected or tested.
(2) The notice may require any of the following:
(a) the inspection and testing to be carried out within or at a stated
reasonable time;
(b) the inspection and testing to be carried out by or in the presence
of a police officer, an authorised person or anyone else;
(c) the inspection and testing to be carried out at a stated reasonable
place;
(d) a report of the inspection and testing to be given to a police
officer, an authorised person or the road transport authority
within a stated reasonable time;
(e) anything else reasonably necessary or convenient for the
inspection and testing.
(3) A person commits an offence if the person fails to comply with a
notice given to the person under subsection (1).
(5) In subsection (1):
equipment, for a vehicle that is a bookable vehicle, includes any
device used by the driver of the vehicle to communicate with a
transport booking service.
Examples—device used to communicate with a transport booking service
• the driver’s mobile phone
• the driver’s iPad
Note Bookable vehicle means a taxi, a rideshare vehicle or a hire car (see
s 29).
operator, of a vehicle, includes the responsible person for the vehicle
within the meaning of the Road Transport (General) Act 1999,
section 10 and section 11.