The Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 2007

Disclosure of information about insurance status of vehicles

81.—(1) The Department may by regulations make provision for and in connection with requiring MIIC to make available relevant vehicle insurance information to the Police Service of Northern Ireland 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 VIII of the Order of 1981.

(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 the Police Service of Northern Ireland;

(b) determine the purposes for which information processed from such information by the Police Service of Northern Ireland 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) Regulations made under this Article shall be subject to negative resolution.

(5) In this Article–

“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).