{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-access-to-driver-licensing-records-regulations-2001/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-access-to-driver-licensing-records-regulations-2001/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3343",
  "legislation_title": "The Motor Vehicles (Access to Driver Licensing Records) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/motor-vehicles-access-to-driver-licensing-records-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Purposes for which access may be given",
  "text": "The purposes for which constables may be given access to information made available to the Police Information Technology Organisation under section 71(1) of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 are—\n(a) the prevention, investigation or prosecution of a contravention of any provision of the following enactments—\n(i) the Road Traffic Act 1988;\n(ii) the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988;\n(iii) the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981;\n(iv) the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995; and\n(v) the Road Traffic Offenders (Northern Ireland) Order 1996;\n(b) ascertaining whether a person has had an order made in relation to him under—\n(i) section 40B(1) or (5) (disqualification from driving: further provision) of the Child Support Act 1991;\n(ii) section 248A(1) (general power to disqualify offenders) or 248B(2) (power to disqualify fine defaulters) of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995; or\n(iii) section 39(1) (offenders) or 40(2) (fine defaulters) of the Crime (Sentences) Act 1997.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1988 c. 52."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1988 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2994 (N.I. 18)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1360 (N.I. 10)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1991 c. 48; section 40B was inserted by the Child Support, Pensions and Social Security Act 2000 (c. 19), section 16(3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1995 c. 46; sections 248A and 248B were inserted by the Crime and Punishment (Scotland) Act 1997 (c. 48), section 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1997 c. 43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/1965",
      "affecting_title": "The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "word omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/1965",
      "affecting_title": "The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/2008/1965",
      "affecting_title": "The Vehicle Drivers (Certificates of Professional Competence) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3343/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:27:41.287489+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."
}