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s. 32(a)–(h), 25/1989 s. 43(a)(b), 44/1989 s. 40(Sch. 1 items 2.1, 8.1, 23), 81/1990 s. 7(5), 120/1993 s. 66(3), repealed by No. 30/2000 s. 19. S. 218A inserted by No. 100/1986 s. 32(i), amended by Nos 25/1989 s. 44, 81/1990 s. 7(6), 120/1993 s. 66(4), repealed by No. 30/2000 s. 19.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).