Commentary Part 7: Miscellaneous provisions Section 129: Disclosure of information relating to foreign-registered vehicles
322.This section inserts a new section 49A into the Road Safety Act 2006 (c.49). The new section allows the Secretary of State to disclose information, derived from a register of vehicles maintained in a country or territory outside the UK, to the list of people and for the purposes specified at subsection (3). The effect of subsection (4) is to allow the Secretary of State to charge a reasonable fee in respect of the cost of obtaining, or seeking to obtain, the information and for supplying information. Subsection (5) provides that this section does not affect any other power of the Secretary of State to disclose information.