{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-charges-and-penalty-charges-london-regulations-2001/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-charges-and-penalty-charges-london-regulations-2001/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/2285",
  "legislation_title": "The Road User Charging (Charges and Penalty Charges) (London) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-charges-and-penalty-charges-london-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Entering vehicles",
  "text": "(1) An authorised person may enter a vehicle which is on a road where he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that—\n(a) any equipment required to be carried in or fitted to the vehicle while it is on a road in respect of which charges are imposed has been interfered with by a person who intends to avoid payment of, or to be identified as having failed to pay, a charge imposed by the charging scheme; or\n(b) there is in the vehicle a false document which has been made or used by a person who intends to avoid payment of, or to be identified as having failed to pay, such a charge.\n(2) The power conferred by paragraph (1) shall not be exercised by an authorised person who is not a constable, except in the presence of a constable.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 modified (22.7.2008) by Transport for London Act 2008 (c. i), ss. 1(1), 6(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 16.7.2001, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/2285/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:45:28.906446+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."
}