Transport (Scotland) Act 2019

Transport (Scotland) Act 2019

2019 asp 17

The Act

Part 6 – Pavement Parking, Double Parking and Parking at Dropped Kerbs

Enforcement of parking prohibitions

Disposal of removed motor vehicles – section 63

389. Subsection (1) confers power on the Scottish Ministers to, by regulations, make provision for or about the disposal of a motor vehicle which has been removed from a road pursuant to regulations under section 61(1). The regulations will confer power on local authorities (and any person with whom a local authority has entered into arrangements with as mentioned in section 64) to dispose of such motor vehicles in circumstances as may be specified in the regulations.

390. Subsection (2) sets out examples of the kind of provision that may be made in regulations under subsection (1), which include the procedure that must be followed before a vehicle may be disposed of and the manner in which it may be disposed.

391. Subsection (3) provides that the Scottish Ministers must consult with such persons or organisations as appears to them to be representative of drivers and other road users, and other persons as they consider appropriate before making these regulations.

392. The power under subsection (1) is subject to the negative procedure – see section 128(2).