# The Road User Charging Schemes (Penalty Charges, Adjudication and Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2013, Regulation 23: Power to enter motor vehicles

Extent: E+W

(1) A charging scheme may confer powers on an authorised person to enter a motor vehicle whilst on a road where the authorised person has reasonable grounds for suspecting that—
(a) any equipment required by a charging scheme to be carried in or fitted to the motor vehicle while it is on a road designated by the charging scheme and in respect of which road user charges have been imposed has been interfered with, or its functioning has been interfered with, by a person who intends to avoid payment of, or being identified as having failed to pay, a road user charge imposed by the charging scheme; or
(b) there is in the motor vehicle a false document which has been made or used by a person who intends to avoid payment of, or being identified as having failed to pay, such a road user charge.
(2) The power conferred by paragraph (1) must not be exercised by an authorised person who is not a constable except in the presence of a constable.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/1783/regulation/23 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-user-charging-schemes-penalty-charges-adjudication-and-enforcement-england-regulations-2013/regulation-23
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