Paragraph 20 I1

For section 166 of the 1988 Act (powers of certain officers as respects goods vehicles) there shall be substituted the following section—

“ Powers of certain officers as respects goods vehicles and passenger-carrying vehicles.

166

Any of the following officers, namely—

(a)

an examiner appointed under section 68 of this Act,

(b)

a certifying officer appointed under section 7(1) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981,

(c)

an examiner appointed under section 7(2) of that Act, and

(d)

a person authorised for the purpose by a traffic commissioner appointed for the purposes of that Act,

may, 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) or (3) or 165 of this Act, exercisable by a constable.”