http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56Transport (Scotland) Act 2019An Act of the Scottish Parliament to require the production of a national strategy in relation to transport; to make provision for low emission zones; to make provision for and in connection with the powers of local transport authorities in connection with the operation of local bus services in their areas; to make provision about arrangements under which persons may be entitled to travel on local bus and other transport services; to prohibit the parking of vehicles on pavements, prohibit double parking and prohibit parking adjacent to dropped footways; to make provision enabling local authorities to make schemes under which a charge may be levied for providing workplace parking places; to make provision in connection with charges arising from parking on private land; to make provision in connection with the status of the office of the Scottish Road Works Commissioner, the Commissioner's functions and the regulation of road works; to make provision in connection with regional Transport Partnerships and to adjust the number of members on the British Waterways Board; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-05-30Expert Participation2024-04-01 PART 6 Parking prohibitions<Emphasis>Dropped footway parking prohibition</Emphasis>Dropped footway parking prohibition561A person must not park a motor vehicle on a carriageway adjacent to a footway where, for the purpose of assisting pedestrians or cyclists to cross the carriageway—athe footway has been lowered to meet the level of the carriageway, orbthe carriageway has been raised to meet the level of the footway.2In this Part, the prohibition in subsection (1) is referred to as the “dropped footway parking prohibition”.3In this section and section 57—carriageway” has the meaning given by section 51(6),footway” has the meaning given by section 50(4),motor vehicle” has the meaning given by section 54(5).S. 56 in force at 11.12.2023 by S.S.I. 2023/250, sch.
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<Legislation xmlns="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2019/17" NumberOfProvisions="234" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation http://www.legislation.gov.uk/schema/legislation.xsd" SchemaVersion="1.0" RestrictExtent="S" RestrictStartDate="2024-04-01">
<ukm:Metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:ukm="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/metadata">
<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56</dc:identifier>
<dc:title>Transport (Scotland) Act 2019</dc:title>
<dc:description>An Act of the Scottish Parliament to require the production of a national strategy in relation to transport; to make provision for low emission zones; to make provision for and in connection with the powers of local transport authorities in connection with the operation of local bus services in their areas; to make provision about arrangements under which persons may be entitled to travel on local bus and other transport services; to prohibit the parking of vehicles on pavements, prohibit double parking and prohibit parking adjacent to dropped footways; to make provision enabling local authorities to make schemes under which a charge may be levied for providing workplace parking places; to make provision in connection with charges arising from parking on private land; to make provision in connection with the status of the office of the Scottish Road Works Commissioner, the Commissioner's functions and the regulation of road works; to make provision in connection with regional Transport Partnerships and to adjust the number of members on the British Waterways Board; and for connected purposes.</dc:description>
<dc:type>text</dc:type>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>en</dc:language>
<dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher>
<dc:modified>2024-05-30</dc:modified>
<dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor>
<dct:valid>2024-04-01</dct:valid>
<atom:link rel="self" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/data.xml" type="application/xml"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/resources" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/resources" title="More Resources"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/notes" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2019/17/section/56/notes" title="Explanatory Notes"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/notes/toc" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/notes/contents" title="Explanatory Notes Table of Contents"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/act" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17" title="whole act"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/introduction" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/introduction" title="introduction"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/body" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/body" title="body"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/schedules" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/schedules" title="schedules"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/data.rdf" title="RDF/XML"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/data.akn" title="AKN"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/data.xht" title="HTML snippet"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/data.htm" title="Website (XHTML) Default View"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/csv" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/data.csv" title="CSV"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/pdf" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/data.pdf" title="PDF"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xhtml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/data.html" title="HTML5 snippet"/>
<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/tableOfContents" hreflang="en" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/contents" title="Table of Contents"/>
<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/enacted" title="enacted"/>
<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/2023-12-11" title="2023-12-11"/>
<atom:link rel="up" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17" title="Entire legislation"/>
<atom:link rel="prev" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/55" title="Provision; Section 55"/>
<atom:link rel="prevInForce" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/55" title="Provision; Section 55"/>
<atom:link rel="next" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/57" title="Provision; Section 57"/>
<atom:link rel="nextInForce" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/57" title="Provision; Section 57"/>
<ukm:PrimaryMetadata>
<ukm:DocumentClassification>
<ukm:DocumentCategory Value="primary"/>
<ukm:DocumentMainType Value="ScottishAct"/>
<ukm:DocumentStatus Value="revised"/>
</ukm:DocumentClassification>
<ukm:Year Value="2019"/>
<ukm:Number Value="17"/>
<ukm:EnactmentDate Date="2019-11-15"/>
<ukm:ISBN Value="9780105903598"/>
</ukm:PrimaryMetadata>
<ukm:Notes>
<ukm:Note IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2019/17/section/56/notes" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/notes"/>
<ukm:Alternatives>
<ukm:Alternative URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/pdfs/aspen_20190017_en.pdf" Date="2020-02-11" Title="Explanatory Note" Size="2670956"/>
</ukm:Alternatives>
</ukm:Notes>
<ukm:CorrectionSlips>
<ukm:CorrectionSlip URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/pdfs/aspcs_20190017_en_001.pdf" Date="2019-12-10" Title="Correction Slip 1" Size="104090"/>
</ukm:CorrectionSlips>
<ukm:Alternatives>
<ukm:Alternative URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/pdfs/asp_20190017_en.pdf" Date="2019-11-18" Size="1480379"/>
</ukm:Alternatives>
<ukm:Statistics>
<ukm:TotalParagraphs Value="234"/>
<ukm:BodyParagraphs Value="227"/>
<ukm:ScheduleParagraphs Value="7"/>
<ukm:AttachmentParagraphs Value="0"/>
<ukm:TotalImages Value="0"/>
</ukm:Statistics>
</ukm:Metadata>
<Primary>
<Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2019/17/body" NumberOfProvisions="227" RestrictStartDate="2024-04-01">
<Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/part/6" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2019/17/part/6" NumberOfProvisions="20" id="part-6" RestrictStartDate="2023-12-11">
<Number>
<Strong>PART 6</Strong>
</Number>
<Title>Parking prohibitions</Title>
<Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/part/6/crossheading/dropped-footway-parking-prohibition" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2019/17/part/6/crossheading/dropped-footway-parking-prohibition" NumberOfProvisions="2" id="part-6-crossheading-dropped-footway-parking-prohibition" RestrictStartDate="2023-12-11">
<Title>
<Emphasis>Dropped footway parking prohibition</Emphasis>
</Title>
<P1group RestrictStartDate="2023-12-11">
<Title>Dropped footway parking prohibition</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2019/17/section/56" id="section-56">
<Pnumber PuncAfter="">
<CommentaryRef Ref="key-38a27809e5e1319ccbb0b0fe0fc9d632"/>
56
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2019/17/section/56/1" id="section-56-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>A person must not park a motor vehicle on a carriageway adjacent to a footway where, for the purpose of assisting pedestrians or cyclists to cross the carriageway—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/1/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2019/17/section/56/1/a" id="section-56-1-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the footway has been lowered to meet the level of the carriageway, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/1/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2019/17/section/56/1/b" id="section-56-1-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the carriageway has been raised to meet the level of the footway.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2019/17/section/56/2" id="section-56-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>
In this Part, the prohibition in subsection (1) is referred to as the “
<Term id="term-dropped-footway-parking-prohibition">dropped footway parking prohibition</Term>
”.
</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2019/17/section/56/3" id="section-56-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>In this section and section 57—</Text>
<UnorderedList Decoration="none" Class="Definition">
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-carriageway">carriageway</Term>
” has the meaning given by section 51(6),
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-footway">footway</Term>
” has the meaning given by section 50(4),
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
<ListItem>
<Para>
<Text>
<Term id="term-motor-vehicle">motor vehicle</Term>
” has the meaning given by section 54(5).
</Text>
</Para>
</ListItem>
</UnorderedList>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Pblock>
</Part>
</Body>
</Primary>
<Commentaries>
<Commentary id="key-38a27809e5e1319ccbb0b0fe0fc9d632" Type="I">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef SectionRef="section-56" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/asp/2019/17/section/56" id="c9b6spe75-00034">S. 56</CitationSubRef>
in force at 11.12.2023 by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2023/250" Class="ScottishStatutoryInstrument" Year="2023" Number="250" Title="The Transport (Scotland) Act 2019 (Commencement No. 7) Regulations 2023" id="c9b6spe75-00035">S.S.I. 2023/250</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef SectionRef="schedule" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2023/250/schedule" CitationRef="c9b6spe75-00035" Operative="true" id="c9b6spe75-00036">sch.</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
</Commentaries>
</Legislation>