The Traffic Management (Northern Ireland) Order 2005

Traffic attendants N.I.

Traffic attendants N.I.

3.— [F1 (1) The Department may provide for the enforcement by individuals of contraventions specified in Schedule 1 in relation to which the Department is the enforcement authority.

(1A) A district council may provide for the enforcement by individualsof contraventions specified in Schedule 1 in relation to which the council is the enforcement authority.

(1B) The individuals referred to in paragraphs (1) and (1A) are to beknown as traffic attendants.]

(2) A traffic attendant must be—

(a) an individual employed by [F2 an enforcement authority] ; or

(b) where [F2 an enforcement authority] has made arrangements with any person for the purposes of this Article, an individual employed by that person to act as a traffic attendant.

[F3 (2A) In relation to any function conferred by this Order on anenforcement authority, a reference to a traffic attendant is a reference to a traffic attendant employed by, or in pursuance of arrangements made by, that enforcement authority under paragraph (2).]

(3) Traffic attendants—

(a) when exercising specified functions shall wear such uniform as the [F4 enforcement authority] may determine; and

(b) shall not exercise any of those functions when not in uniform.

(4) In paragraph (3)(a) “specified functions” means—

(a) functions under Article 5 (issue of penalty charge notice by traffic attendant);

(b) functions under section 14(4BA) or 14A(5) of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 53) (enforcement powers relating to disabled persons' badges); and

(c) such other functions as may be prescribed.

F1 Art. 3(1)(1A)(1B) substituted for art. 3(1) (1.4.2015) by Off-street Parking (Functions of District Councils) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 3), art. 1(8), Sch. para. 7(2)

F2 Words in art. 3(2) substituted (1.4.2015) by Off-street Parking (Functions of District Councils) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 3), art. 1(8), Sch. para. 7(3)

F3 Art. 3(2A) inserted (1.4.2015) by Off-street Parking (Functions of District Councils) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 3), art. 1(8), Sch. para. 7(4)

F4 Words in art. 3(3) substituted (1.4.2015) by Off-street Parking (Functions of District Councils) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 3), art. 1(8), Sch. para. 7(5)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Arts. 3-28: transfer of functions (1.4.2015) by Off-street Parking (Functions of District Councils) Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 3), arts. 1(3)(8) (with art. 1(5))