66 Hired vehicles
Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (1988 c 53) | Legislation

66  Hired vehicles

(1)     This section applies where—

(a)     a notice to owner has been served on a vehicle-hire firm,

(b)     at the time of the alleged offence the vehicle in respect of which the notice was served was let to another person by the vehicle-hire firm under a hiring agreement to which this section applies, and

(c)     within the period allowed for response to the notice the firm provides the [relevant person] with the documents mentioned in subsection (2) below.

(2)     Those documents are a statement on an official form, signed by or on behalf of the firm, stating that at the time of the alleged offence the vehicle concerned was hired under a hiring agreement to which this section applies, together with—

(a)     a copy of that hiring agreement, and

(b)     a copy of a statement of liability signed by the hirer under that hiring agreement.

(3)     In this section a “statement of liability” means a statement made

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