117.— (1) The Road Transport Act 1986 is amended—

(a) in section 15, by substituting for subsection (1) the following:

“(1) The Road Safety Authority may appoint any of its officers, or such officers of the Minister seconded to serve with the Authority, to be transport officers for the purposes of section 16.”,

(b) in section 17, by substituting “The Road Safety Authority may bring” for “The Minister may bring”, and

(c) in section 18(1)(b), by substituting “the Road Safety Authority” for “the Minister”.

(2) Subsection (5) of section 4 of the Road Safety Authority Act 2006 is repealed.