Road Traffic Act 1991

18 (1) Section 9 of the Transport Act 1982 (private sector vehicle testing: the testing and surveillance functions) shall be amended as follows.

(2) Under the cross-heading “Functions under the 1988 Act”—

(a) for the paragraph beginning “The power of entry”, there shall be substituted— “The power of entry, inspection and detention of vehicles under section 68, but only in relation to vehicles brought to the place of inspection in pursuance of a direction given by a vehicle examiner or a constable under subsection (3) of that section.

(b) in the following paragraph, after “69” there shall be inserted “69A,”, and for the word “goods vehicles” there shall be substituted the word “vehicles”.

(3) Under the cross-heading “Functions under the 1981 Act”, the paragraph beginning “Any functions under section 9” shall be omitted.