Traffic attendants

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F11

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 F2an enforcement authority ; or

b

where F2an 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.

F32A

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 F4enforcement 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.