Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)

I move amendment No. 5:

In page 14, subsection (3)(a), line 22, before "(in" to insert the following:

", including the engagement or use by a person in the premises or place of the services of an undertaking for the carriage by road for reward of goods or persons in a vehicle".

This is another technical amendment to include an existing provision that a transport officer of the Road Safety Authority, RSA, can enter the premises of a consignor to inspect a haulier's vehicle therein for the purpose of inspecting vehicles, tachograph machines or documents. As this section is based on section 16 of the 1986 Act, it repeats an amendment made to the latter section by section 14 of the 1999 Act. It allows transport officers employed by the RSA to enforce this legislation.

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