Re: Vehicle checkpoints

On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 10:33:53 GMT, wibble@xxxxxxxxx (sPoNiX) wrote:

>On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:55:48 +0000, Alex Heney <me8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>Nope.
>>
>>He doesn't actually have to be in uniform, but it does have to be a
>>police constable - Road traffic Act 1988, section 35.
>
>Incorrect.
>
>The law has been changed such that *anyone* authorised by the Police
>can stop vehicles.
>

Care to quote the change?

The only amendment I could find to that section of the RTA was the one
from the Traffic management Act 2004 that I quoted.
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