Amendment of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981
5.—(1) The Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981(1) is amended as follows.
(2) After section 12A (detention of certain PSVs used without PSV operators’ licences) insert—
“12B Power to stop
(1) Subsection (2) applies if it appears to a stopping officer that a vehicle is being used in circumstances such that a PSV operator’s licence could be required.
(2) The officer may direct the driver to stop the vehicle for the purpose of enabling checks to be carried out to establish whether the use of the vehicle is in contravention of section 12(1) or 18(1).
(3) In this section a “stopping officer” means an officer appointed under section 66B of the Road Traffic Act 1988.”.
(1)
1981 c.14. Section 12A was inserted by the Local Transport Act 2008, section 47(1).