European Communities Act 1972

10 In section 160(1) of the [1960 c. 16.] Road Traffic Act 1960 (regulations with respect to licensing of public service vehicles), in paragraph (k) after the word " vehicles " there shall be inserted the words " registered elsewhere than in Great Britain or " and the following shall be added at the end of the subsection:—

“(l) exempting vehicles from the requirement of a road service licence when used under an authorisation granted in pursuance of any directly applicable Community provision regulating the provision of international passenger-carrying road transport services ;

(m) requiring documents of any prescribed description relevant to the administration or enforcement of any such Community provision to be kept and produced on demand for the inspection of a prescribed person ;

(n) prescribing persons to act as authorised inspection officers for the purposes of any such Community provision ;"”

and at the end of section 239 of that Act (penalty for contravention of regulations) there shall be inserted the words " and where any such directly applicable Community provision as is referred to in section 160(1)(l) of this Act requires the keeping or production of any document, any person who contravenes that requirement shall be guilty of an offence under this section.