{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-166",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-166.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/52",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988",
  "path": "section/166",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "166",
  "heading": "Powers of certain officers as respects goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles.",
  "text": "Any of the following officers, namely—\n(a) an examiner appointed under section 68 of this Act,\n(b) a certifying officer appointed under section 7(1) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981,\n(c) an examiner appointed under section 7(2) of that Act, and\n(d) A person authorised for the purpose by a traffic commissioner appointed under the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981,\nmay, on production if so required of his authority, exercise in the case of goods vehicles or passenger-carrying vehicles of any prescribed class all such powers as are, under section 164(1), (3) or (5A) or 165 of this Act, exercisable by a constable.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 166 substituted (1.4.1991) by Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989 (c. 22, SIF 107:1), s. 7, Sch. 3 para. 20"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 166(d) substituted (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), s. 48, Sch. 4 para. 70; S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2,Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 166 substituted (30.11.2022) by Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 (c. 32), s. 208(1), Sch. 10 para. 24; S.I. 2022/1187, reg. 4(a) (with Pt. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1981 c.14"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/166",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:34.565959+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."
}