The powers to provide parking places conferred on F1local F2roads authorities in Scotland by section 32 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 shall include a power to provide parking places where it appears to the authority desirable to do so to facilitate the enjoyment of the countryside by members of the public.

General and district planning authorities may exercise the power conferred by the foregoing subsection and for that purpose may acquire land compulsorily; and F4sections 32, 33, 35, 41, 101 and 102 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 shall apply for the purposes of this subsection as if for any reference therein to a local authority there were substituted a reference to a general or district planning authority.