Part IV General and supplementary

Chapter I General

71 Access to driver licensing records.

(1)

The Secretary of State may make any information held by him for the purposes of Part III of the M1Road Traffic Act 1988 available F1... for use by constables F2and F3National Crime Agency officers.

(2)

In respect of any information made available F4... under subsection (1), the Secretary of State may by regulations—

(a)

determine the purposes for which F5information may be made available to constables F6and F7National Crime Agency officers F8...,

(b)

determine the circumstances in which any of the information F9made available to them may be further disclosed by them.

(3)

Before making any regulations applying in respect of F10constables of the Police Service of Scotland, the Secretary of State must, to the extent to which the regulations will so apply, consult the Scottish Ministers.

(4)

In this section F11—

“constables” includes —

F12(a)

persons appointed by a chief constable under paragraph 4 of Schedule 2 to the Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (civilian staff of police forces outside London),

(aa)

persons appointed by the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis under paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 to that Act (civilian staff of metropolitan police force),

F13(b)

police staff within the meaning of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012,

(c)

police support staff (within the meaning of the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000), and

(d)

persons employed by the British Transport Police Authority under section 27(1) of the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 who are under the direction and control of the Chief Constable of the British Transport Police Force,

“information” means information held in any form.

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