# The Taxis (Northern Ireland) Order 2007, Article 45: False statements, forgery and power of seizure in connection with certain documents


(1) A person who knowingly or recklessly makes, or causes to be made, a statement or furnishes information which is false or misleading in any material particular for the purpose of procuring the grant of a licence under this Order, or the variation of a licence under Article 30, is guilty of an offence.
(2) A person who, with intent to deceive—
(a) forges, alters or uses a document or other thing listed in paragraph (3);
(b) lends to, or allows to be used by, any other person a document or other thing listed in paragraph (3); or
(c) makes or has in his possession any document or other thing so closely resembling a document or other thing listed in paragraph (3) as to be calculated to deceive,
is guilty of an offence.
(3) The documents or other things referred to in paragraph (2) are—
(a) any licence under this Order;
(b) any records required to be kept under, or by virtue of regulations made under, Article 5;
(c) any plate, disc, sign or distinguishing mark issued under Article 17;
(d) any document which, in pursuance of Article 25(3), is issued as evidence of the result of a test of competence to drive;
(e) any badge or other evidence of identification issued under Article 26; or
(f) such other documents or things as are prescribed.
(4) A person guilty of an offence under this Article shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
(5) If a constable or authorised officer has reasonable cause to believe—
(a) that a document or other thing produced to him under this Order by the driver of a motor vehicle;
(b) a document or other thing carried on or by the driver of a motor vehicle; or
(c) that any plate, disc, sign or distinguishing mark containing particulars required to be on a plate, disc, sign or distinguishing mark issued under Article 17,
is a document or other thing in relation to which an offence has been committed under this Article, he may seize the document or other thing.
(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5), the power to seize includes a power to detach from a vehicle.
(7) When a document or other thing has been seized under paragraph (5), the person from whom it was seized shall, unless the document or other thing has been previously returned to him or he has been previously charged with an offence under this Article, be summoned before a court of summary jurisdiction to account for his possession of the document or other thing and the court shall make such order respecting the disposal of the document or other thing and award such costs as the justice of the case may require.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110800664/article/45 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-taxis-northern-ireland-order-2007/article-45
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