Part 5Miscellaneous

Vehicle registration and insurance and road traffic offences

I1153Disclosure of information about insurance status of vehicles

1

The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for and in connection with requiring MIIC to make available relevant vehicle insurance information to F1NPIA for it to process with a view to making the processed information available for use by constables.

2

“Relevant vehicle insurance information” means information relating to vehicles the use of which has been (but no longer is) insured under a policy of insurance, or security in respect of third party risks, complying with the requirements of Part 6 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (c. 52).

3

The regulations may in particular—

a

require all relevant vehicle insurance information or any particular description of such information to be made available to F2NPIA,

b

determine the purposes for which information processed from such information by F3NPIA may be made available for use by constables, and

c

determine the circumstances in which any of the processed information which has been made available for use by constables may be further disclosed by them.

4

In this section—

  • “information” means information held in any form,

  • “MIIC” means the Motor Insurers' Information Centre (a company limited by guarantee and incorporated under the Companies Act 1985 (c. 6) on 8th December 1998), and

  • F4“NPIA” means the National Policing Improvement Agency.