The Road Traffic (Permitted Parking Area and Special Parking Area) (City of Edinburgh) Designation Order 1998

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Permitted Parking Area and Special Parking Area) (City of Edinburgh) Designation Order 1998 and shall come into force on 5th October 1998.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order–

“the 1984 Act” means the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1);

“the 1991 Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1991;

“parking area” means the area designated as a permitted parking area and a special parking area by article 3 of this Order.

Designation of permitted parking area and special parking area

3.  That part of the City of Edinburgh local government area(2) specified in Schedule 1 to this Order is hereby designated as–

(a) a permitted parking area; and

(b) a special parking area.

Modification and application of Part II of the 1991 Act

4.  Sections 66, 69 to 74, 79 and 82 of, and Schedule 6 to, the 1991 Act shall apply in relation to the parking area and as so applied shall have effect subject to the modifications specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.

Modification of the 1984 Act and Schedule 3 to the 1991 Act

5.—(1) The 1984 Act shall be modified in relation to the parking area as specified in Part I of Schedule 3 to this Order.

(2) Schedule 3 to the 1991 Act shall be modified in relation to the parking area as specified in Part II of Schedule 3 to this Order.

Consequential modification

6.  In relation to a parking adjudicator appointed under section 73(3) of the 1991 Act by virtue of this Order, the reference in paragraph 40(b) of Schedule 1 to the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992(3) to a parking adjudicator appointed under section 73(3)(a) of the 1991 Act shall be construed as if it were a reference to a parking adjudicator appointed under section 73(3) of that Act by virtue of this Order.

Henry McLeish

Minister of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

22nd June 1998