Instructions
You must do the following if a Garda asks you to:
- Show your driving licence, which you must carry at all times when driving.
- Allow the Garda to examine the insurance disc, tax disc, and, where relevant the NCT disc, all of which you must display on your vehicle.
- Produce a certificate of roadworthiness or NCT certificate, as appropriate, at a named Garda station within 10 days.
- Produce a valid motor insurance certificate to a Garda within 10 days of it being requested. A Garda may ask to see a valid motor insurance certificate anytime up to a month after observing or reasonably believing that an uninsured vehicle has been used in a public place.
- Produce the vehicle registration certificate at any reasonable time.
- Stop your vehicle and allow a Garda to check it for defects.
- Give your name and address.
- Write out your signature.
- Give a sample of your breath. You may be required to provide a roadside breath sample if you have been involved in a crash, if you have committed a road traffic offence or if a Garda forms the opinion that you have consumed an intoxicant, such as, alcohol or certain drugs.
- Gardaí can set up Mandatory Alcohol Testing checkpoints (MATs) to take roadside breath samples without the need to form the opinion that you have consumed an intoxicant. It is a criminal offence to refuse to provide a sample.
- If you are arrested for an offence related to alcohol and driving or
refusing to give a roadside breath sample, you will be required to provide
a sample of breath and blood or urine at a Garda station.