Clause 59

by deleting the words “has reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is to be found in the vehicle any article in respect of which a scheduled offence has been or is being committed, he may search the vehicle and any person found in such vehicle” in section 3(2) and substituting the words “may search the vehicle and any person found in such vehicle if the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that there is to be found in the vehicle any article in respect of which a scheduled offence has been or is being committed, or that the vehicle, or a person in, on or near the vehicle, is the target of a special authorisation given under the Public Order and Safety (Special Powers) Act 2018 or that the vehicle is in an area that is the target of the special authorisation”; (b)by inserting, immediately after subsection (1) of section 5, the following subsection:“(1A) When a special authorisation under the Public Order and Safety (Special Powers) Act 2018 has effect and it is reasonably suspected by a police officer that a road vehicle, or a person in, on or near the vehicle, is the target of the special authorisation or that any dangerous article, offensive weapon or subversive document (within the meaning of that Act) may be found in any road vehicle or on any person found in, on or near the vehicle —

the owner of the road vehicle must give such information as may be required by the police officer as to the identity and the address, driving licence number and identity card number of the person who was in control of or driving the road vehicle on any specified occasion; and

any other person who was or should have been in control of that road vehicle must, if required by the police officer, give any information which is in the person’s power to give and which may lead to the identification of the driver.”; (c)by inserting, immediately after the words “subsection (1)” in section 5(2), the words “or (1A)”; (d)by inserting, immediately after the words “the provisions of this Act” in section 6, the words “(except section 5(1A))”; and (e)by renumbering section 6 as subsection (1) of that section, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following subsection:“(2) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with section 5(1A) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $20,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both.”.