Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967

31 Provisions as to use of parking places provided under s. 28.

(1) Subject to sections 84A, 84B and 84C of this Act, a local authority may, as respects any parking place—

(a) provided by the authority under section 28 of this Act, or

(b) provided under any letting or arrangements made by the authority under section 29(6) thereof,

by order make provision as to the use of the parking place, and in particular as to the vehicles or class of vehicles which may be entitled to use it, as to the conditions on which it may be used, as to the charges to be paid in connection with its use (where it is an off-street one) and as to the removal therefrom of a vehicle left there in contravention of the order and the safe custody of the vehicle.

(2) An order under subsection (1) above may provide for a specified apparatus or device to be used as a means to indicate the time at which a vehicle arrived at, and the time at which it ought to leave, a parking place, or one or other of those times, or the charges paid or payable in respect of a vehicle in an off-street parking place, or as a means to collect any such charges, and may make provision regulating the use of any such apparatus or device; but an order shall not provide for the use of any apparatus or device not generally or specially approved for the purpose by the appropriate Minister and, where an order provides for the use of any apparatus or device for collecting charges at an off-street parking place, the local authority shall comply with any directions of the appropriate Minister as to the testing, maintenance and periodical inspection of the apparatus or device.

(3) In the event of any contravention of, or non-compliance with, a provision of an order under subsection (1) above, the person responsible shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £5 or, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding £10 ; and where such an order provides for the use of any apparatus or device for collecting charges at an off-street parking place, any person who, with intent to defraud, interferes with the apparatus or device, or operates or attempts to operate it by the insertion of objects other than current coins of the appropriate denomination, shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £50 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

(4) An order under subsection (1) above may include provision—

(a) for determining the person responsible for any contravention of, or non-compliance with, the order;

(b) for treating the indications given by any apparatus or device used in pursuance of the order as evidence, and in Scotland sufficient evidence, of such facts and for such purposes as may be provided by the order ;

(c) for applying with any appropriate adaptations any of the provisions of section 42(5) to (7) of this Act.

(5) While a vehicle is within a parking place, it shall not be lawful for the driver or conductor of the vehicle, or for any person employed in connection therewith, to ply for hire or to accept passengers for hire, and if a person acts in contravention of this provision he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £2.

(6) In England or Wales, a local authority may institute proceedings for offences in connection with parking places provided by the authority, or provided under any letting or arrangements made by the authority under section 29(6) of this Act, being offences under subsection (3) or (5) above.

(7) A local authority may appoint with or without remuneration such officers and servants as may be necessary for the superintendence of parking places.

(8) Nothing in subsections (1) to (4) above shall affect the [S.R. & O. 1936/1088.] Restriction of Ribbon Development (Power to Provide Parking Places) Order 1936, so far as it applies to the City of London or apply to any byelaws having effect as respects the City of London by virtue of that Order; and that Order, so far as it so applies, shall continue to have effect by virtue of this subsection.