217AAdditional inspection power concerning heavy vehicles

217A Additional inspection power concerning heavy vehicles

(1) In this section, heavy vehicle has the same meaning as it has in section 3(1) of the Road Safety Act 1986, but also includes—

(a) any other vehicle that is physically connected to the heavy vehicle (even if that other vehicle is not a heavy vehicle); and

(b) a bus that is used, or that is intended to be used, to carry passengers for reward or in the course of a business.

(2) A person who is authorised to exercise a power under section 216 or 217 may also exercise that power in relation to a heavy vehicle for the purpose of ascertaining whether the requirements imposed by or under the Road Safety Act 1986 are being complied with.

S. 217A(3) amended by Nos 95/2005 s. 39(1), 37/2014 s. 10(Sch. item 171.8).

(3) If a person acting under subsection (2) discovers, or reasonably suspects, that a heavy vehicle does not comply with the Road Safety Act 1986 or the regulations made under that Act, section 14 of that Act applies as if a reference in that section to "a police officer or a person referred to in section 13(6)" were a reference to him or her.

S. 217A(4) inserted by No. 95/2005 s. 39(2).

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3), reasonably suspects means that the person has formed a reasonable suspicion on the basis of information derived from the vehicle's engine management system using, in accordance with regulations made under the Road Safety Act 1986, an engine management system reading device specified by those regulations.

S. 218 amended by Nos 100/1986 s. 32(a)–(h), 25/1989 s. 43(a)(b), 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 items 2.1, 8.1, 23), 81/1990 s. 7(5), 120/1993 s. 66(3), repealed by No. 30/2000 s. 19.

S. 218A inserted by No. 100/1986 s. 32(i), amended by Nos 25/1989 s. 44, 81/1990 s. 7(6), 120/1993 s. 66(4), repealed by No. 30/2000 s. 19.

Pt 7 Div. 3A (Heading) inserted by No. 101/2003 s. 17(4).