{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicle-tyres-labelling-enforcement-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicle-tyres-labelling-enforcement-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1509",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicle Tyres (Labelling) (Enforcement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicle-tyres-labelling-enforcement-amendment-eu-exit-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Investigative powers of officers",
  "text": "(1) Officers may exercise any of the powers set out in paragraph (2) at all reasonable hours provided—\n(a) the officers identify themselves and produce authority in writing from the enforcement authority for the exercise by the officers of powers conferred on the enforcement authority by Part 2 of these Regulations; and\n(b) the officers state the purpose of the officers’ actions and the grounds for undertaking them.\n(2) The powers referred to in paragraph (1) are as follows—\n(a) an officer may for the purpose of ascertaining there has been a breach of a relevant requirement inspect any relevant tyres;\n(b) if an officer has reasonable cause to suspect that there has been a breach of a relevant requirement, the officer may, for the purpose of ascertaining whether there has been a breach, require any person carrying on, or employed in connection with, a business to produce any records relating to relevant tyres and the officer may take copies of those records or any part of them;\n(c) if an officer has reasonable cause to suspect that there has been a breach of a relevant requirement, the officer may seize and detain any relevant tyres for the purpose of ascertaining whether there has been a breach;\n(d) an officer may seize and detain any relevant tyres or records which the officer has reason to believe may be required as evidence in proceedings for a breach of a relevant requirement.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2), the officer may require information stored electronically to be made available in printed form.\n(4) An officer may, for the purpose of ascertaining whether there has been a breach of a relevant requirement, make a purchase of relevant tyres.\n(5) When exercising any power of seizure and detention under this paragraph, an officer must, as soon as practicable, give to the person against whom the power has been exercised, a written notice stating—\n(a) precisely what has been so seized and detained;\n(b) that an application for the release of a detained item may be made in accordance with regulation 13; and\n(c) the procedure for making such an application.\n(6) A person who is not an officer of the enforcement authority must not purport to act as such under this Regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1509/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:20:34.771496+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."
}