Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, Paragraph 20 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 10 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
20E+WAfter paragraph 8A insert—
(1)A person whose accreditation specifies that this paragraph applies to him shall have, in the relevant police area—
(a)the power of a constable engaged in the regulation of traffic in a road to direct a person driving or propelling a vehicle to stop the vehicle or to make it proceed in, or keep to, a particular line of traffic;
(b)the power of a constable in uniform engaged in the regulation of vehicular traffic in a road to direct a person on foot to stop proceeding along or across the carriageway.
(2)The purposes for which those powers may be exercised do not include the purpose mentioned in paragraph 9(1).
(3)A person whose accreditation specifies that this paragraph applies to him shall also have, in the relevant police area, the power of a constable, for the purposes of a traffic survey, to direct a person driving or propelling a vehicle to stop the vehicle, to make it proceed in, or keep to, a particular line of traffic, or to proceed to a particular point on or near the road.
(4)Sections 35 and 37 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (offences of failing to comply with directions of constable engaged in regulation of traffic in a road) shall have effect in relation to the exercise of the powers mentioned in sub-paragraphs (1) and (3), for the purposes for which they may be exercised and by a person whose accreditation specifies that this paragraph applies to him, as if the references to a constable were references to him.
(5)A person's accreditation may not specify that this paragraph applies to him unless it also specifies that paragraph 3A applies to him.”
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 8 para. 20 in force at 1.7.2005 by S.I. 2005/1521, art. 3(1)(i)
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