Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984

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55 Financial provisions relating to designation orders.E+W+S

(1)A local authority shall keep an account of their income and expenditure in respect of parking places designated by designation orders for which they are the local authority.

(2)At the end of each financial year any deficit in the account shall be made good out of the [F1general fund], and (subject to subsection (3) below) any surplus shall be applied for all or any of the purposes specified in subsection (4) below and, in so far as it is not so applied, shall be appropriated to the carrying out of some specific project falling within those purposes and carried forward until applied to carrying it out.

(3)If the local authority so determine, any amount not applied in any financial year, instead of being or remaining so appropriated, may be carried forward in the account kept under subsection (1) above to the next financial year.

(4)The purposes referred to in subsection (2) above are the following, that is to say—

(a)the making good to the [F2general fund] of any amount charged to that fund under subsection (2) above in the 4 years immediately preceding the financial year in question;

(b)meeting all or any part of the cost of the provision and maintenance by the local authority of parking accommodation for vehicles otherwise than on [F3highways][F3roads], and whether in the open or under cover;

(c)the making to other local authorities, F4 . . . or to other persons of contributions towards the cost of the provision and maintenance by them, in the area of the local authority or elsewhere, of parking accommodation for vehicles otherwise than on [F3highways][F3roads], and whether in the open or under cover; and

(d)if it appears to the local authority that the provision in their area of further parking accommodation for vehicles otherwise than on [F3highways][F3roads] is for the time being unnecessary or undesirable, the following purposes, namely—

(i)meeting costs incurred, whether by the local authority or by some other person, in the provision or operation of, or of facilities for, public passenger transport services; and

(ii)purposes of a project connected with the carrying out by the appropriate highway authority (whether or not the local authority) of any operation which, within the meaning of the M1Highways Act 1980, constitutes the improvement of a highway in the local authority’s area or, in the case of an authority in Scotland, [F5purposes of a project connected with the doing by the roads authority (whether or not the local authority) of anything which, within the meaning of the M2Roads (Scotland) Act 1984, constitutes the improvement of a road in the local authority’s area.]

[F6(5) The enactments referred to in subsection (4)(d)(ii) above are—

(a)section 8(5) of the M3Development and Road Improvement Funds Act 1909;

(b)section 58 of the M4Road Traffic Act 1930;

(c)section 4 of the M5Restriction of Ribbon Development Act 1935;

(d)section 3(2) of the M6Trunk Roads Act 1946;

(e)the M7Highways (Provision of Cattle Grids) Act 1950;

(f)section 45 of the M8Road Traffic Act 1956;

(g)sections 5, 10 and 24 of the M9Roads (Scotland) Act 1970.]

(6)In relation to a parking place of which the operation is transferred in accordance with . . . F7 subsection (8) of section 54 of this Act, the provisions of this Act which are required by that subsection to apply thereafter—

(a). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F8

(b). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F9

shall include the provisions of this section.

(7). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F10

Textual Amendments

F1Words substituted by Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41, SIF 81:1, 103:2), s. 137, Sch. 12 Pt. III para. 42(1)–(3)

F2Words substituted by Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41, SIF 81:1, 103:2), s. 137, Sch. 12 Pt. III para. 42(1)–(3)

F3Word “roads" substituted (S.) for word “highways" by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108, s. 128(1), Sch. 9 para. 93(20)(a)(i)

F4Words in s. 55(4)(c) repealed (1.10.1991) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), ss. 81, 83, Sch. 7 para. 5(4), Sch. 8; S.I. 1991/2054, art. 3,Sch.

F5Words substituted by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 128(1), Sch. 9 para. 93(20)(a)(ii)

F6S. 55(5) repealed (S.) by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), ss. 128(1), 156(3), Sch. 10 para. 4(1), Sch. 11

F7Words repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), ss. 1, 102(2)(3), Sch. 17