Section 130: Use of information relating to foreign-registered vehicles
323.This section inserts a new section 49B into the Road Safety Act 2006. The new section allows the Secretary of State to use the information to which section 129 applies for the purposes set out in subsection (2). The information can be used:
to carry out vehicle identity checks (allowed by virtue of the regulations made under section 22A(2) of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994);
to check records of examinations of goods and other vehicles as maintained under section 45(6B) or 49(3A) of the Road Traffic Act 1988;
to promote compliance with test certificates under section 47 or 53 of the Road Traffic Act 1988; and
to trace non-resident parents (within the meaning of the Child Support (Information, Evidence and Disclosure) Regulations 1992).