Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 2011

Obtaining of information, etc. by authorised persons

27.—(1) Where an authorised person (A) has reasonable cause to believe that a vehicle is used for passenger transport—

(a) the owner or driver of the vehicle,

(b) any person who has made, is making or intends to make, use of that vehicle for passenger transport, or

(c) any servant or agent of any person of the kind referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b),

shall furnish to A all such information, and produce for inspection all such documents, as A may reasonably require from that person for the purposes set out in subsection (2).

(2) The purposes referred to in subsection (1) are—

(a) obtaining the name and address of the owner of the vehicle or of the person whose servant or agent the driver is, and

(b) ascertaining, in relation to any passengers who have been, or are being, or are to be, carried on the vehicle for reward particulars of—

(i) the number of passengers;

(ii) the places from which and to which the passengers have been, are being, or are to be, carried;

(iii) the reward for the carriage of passengers.

(3) The owner or occupier of any premises entered by an authorised person (A) under section 25, or any servant or agent of any such person, or any person found on any such premises, shall give to A such information as it is in the person’s power to give as to—

(a) the name and address of the owner of any vehicle used for passenger transport which is kept in or on those premises or of the person whose servant or agent the driver of any such vehicle is;

(b) the matters referred to in subsection (2)(b)(i), (ii) and (iii), in relation to any passengers who have been, are being, or are to be, carried on any such vehicle kept in or on those premises;

(c) any use of those premises in connection with passenger transport.

(4) An authorised person (A) may take copies of any documents—

(a) produced under this section; or

(b) relating to passenger transport, being documents which are found by the authorised person or constable on any vehicle or premises entered under section 25;

and for that purpose A may detain any document or vehicle for such time as is required for such copying.