Section 159: Power of police to stop vehicles

Road Traffic Act 1972 · 1972 c.20

Part VII: Miscellaneous and General

159

A person driving a motor vehicle on a road and a person riding a cycle, not being a motor vehicle, on a road shall stop the same on being so required by a constable in uniform, and if he fails to do so he shall be guilty of an offence.

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