14Inspections and information
(1)Regulations may, in connection with any provision of regulations under section 13—
(a)provide for the inspection of trailers or registration documents by examiners or stopping officers, or
(b)require a person to provide information or things to the Secretary of State or another person, or to make declarations.
(2)Regulations under subsection (1)(a) may, in particular, make provision about—
(a)notification of inspections;
(b)inspection of a trailer in the absence of its owner or keeper;
(c)certificates as to the outcome of inspections;
(d)record-keeping in relation to inspections;
(e)the giving of duplicates or copies of certificates.
(3)In this section—
“examiner” means—
(a)an examiner appointed under section 66A of the Road Traffic Act 1988, or
(b)an examiner appointed under Article 74 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18));
“stopping officer” means an officer appointed under section 66B of the Road Traffic Act 1988.