EXPLANATORY NOTE
Part III of the Transport Act 1982 (c. 49) (“Part III”) makes provision for a new system of fixed penalties which comes into force on 1st October 1986 (S.I. 1986/1326. This Order makes a consequential amendment to the Schedule to the Functions of Traffic Wardens Order 1970.
That Schedule sets out the functions which are prescribed as appropriate for discharge by traffic wardens. The new sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 1 substituted by this Order provides, with two specified exceptions, that, for the purposes of enforcing the law with respect to such parking offences etc. as are fixed penalty offences for the purposes of Part III, traffic wardens may exercise the functions conferred on constables by Part III.