Carriage of Dangerous Goods by Road Act, 1998
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Arrest without warrant for certain offences where summons may not be satisfactory to ensure appearance. |
9.—(1) Where a member of the Garda Síochána has reasonable grounds— | |
(a) for believing that an offence resulting from a contravention of this Act or regulations made under section 17 has been or is being committed in connection with the operation on a public road of transport equipment, and | ||
(b) for doubting that an address provided as an address for service by the person whom the member believes to have committed or to be committing the offence is a satisfactory address for service of a summons on the person for the prosecution of the offence, | ||
the member may, without warrant, arrest the person. | ||
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) (b), an address is a satisfactory address for service if it appears to the member of the Garda Síochána that— | ||
(a) the person will be at the address for a sufficiently long period for it to be possible to serve the person with a summons; or | ||
(b) that some other person specified by the first-mentioned person will accept service of a summons for the first-mentioned person at the address. |