{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-community-licences-regulations-2011/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-community-licences-regulations-2011/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2633",
  "legislation_title": "The Goods Vehicles (Community Licences) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/goods-vehicles-community-licences-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Power to stop",
  "text": "(1) Paragraph (2) applies if it appears to a stopping officer that a vehicle is being used in circumstances such that a UK licence for the Community or a Community licence could be required.\n(2) The stopping officer may direct the driver to stop the vehicle so that an authorised inspecting officer can conduct checks as to whether an offence has been committed under regulation 4.\n(3) In this regulation “stopping officer” means an officer appointed under section 66B of the Road Traffic Act 1988.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 13(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Licensing of Operators and International Road Haulage (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/708), regs. 1(1), 5(9); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 in force at 4.12.2011, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c.52; section 66B was inserted by S.I. 2011/ 996."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2633/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:51:28.129482+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}