(1)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.
[F3(2)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.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27, SIF 107:1), Sch. 13 para. 3(a)
F2Word substituted by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), Sch. 9 para. 60(4)
F3S. 51(2) substituted by Local Government and Planning (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 43, SIF 81:2), s. 9 Sch. 1 Pt. I, Pt. II para. 19
F4Words substituted by virtue of Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27, SIF 107:1) s. 146, Sch. 13 para 3(b) (the previous text in this place was “sections 28 (except subsection (6), 29, 31, 32, 52, 53 and 96 of the said Act of 1967” and the words substituted above were expressed to be substituted by Sch. 13 para. 3(b) of the 1984 Act for “sections 28, 29, 31, 32, 52, 53 and 96 of the said Act of 1967)”