Transport (Scotland) Act 2019

72 Power to make and modify schemes

(1) A local authority may (in accordance with this Part)—

(a) make a workplace parking licensing scheme for all or part of its area,

(b) amend or revoke a workplace parking licensing scheme made by it.

(2) A workplace parking licensing scheme may be made only if—

(a) the local authority proposing to make the scheme has a local transport strategy, and

(b) it appears to the authority that the scheme will (directly or indirectly) facilitate the achievement of policies in its strategy.

(3) Two or more local authorities may act jointly to make a workplace parking licensing scheme.

(4) In those circumstances—

(a) they must continue to act jointly in relation to the scheme in all respects, and

(b) unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in this Part to—

(i) a local authority, in relation to a workplace parking licensing scheme or to a proposed scheme, is a reference to the authorities acting jointly,

(ii) the area of a local authority is a reference to the combined areas of those authorities, and

(iii) the local transport strategy of a local authority is a reference to the local transport strategy of each local authority.