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 and CVRT 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 any time 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 or saliva. You may be required to provide a roadside breath or saliva sample at any time when requested by a member of An Garda Síochána. You must wait at the location while the sample is tested.
Perform ‘impairment tests’. You may be required to perform impairment
tests where a Garda suspects that you are driving under the influence of drink or drugs. Before conducting such a test, a Garda will ask whether you have any disability or medical condition which you think might prevent you from participating in the relevant test.
A Garda may conclude from observing your ability to perform these tests that your ability to drive is impaired. It is an offence to refuse to perform impairment tests if required by a Garda.
Gardaí can set up checkpoints 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.