These Regulations may be cited as the Workplace Parking Licensing (Scotland) Regulations 2022 and come into force on 4 March 2022.

In these Regulations—

• “the Act” means the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019,

• “First-tier Tribunal” and “Upper Tribunal” mean (respectively) the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland and the Upper Tribunal for Scotland (see section 1 (establishment of the tribunals) of the Tribunals (Scotland) Act 20142),

• “local authority” includes local authorities jointly making or operating a scheme,

• “scheme” means a workplace parking licensing scheme,

• “writing” and “written” include electronic communications within the meaning of section 15 (general interpretation) of the Electronic Communications Act 20003.