Part IV Parking Places
Parking on highways for payment
52 Offences and proceedings in connection with parking devices and associated apparatus.
1
A person who, with intent to defraud,—
a
interferes with any apparatus referred to in section 51(2)(d) of this Act or with a parking device, or operates or attempts to operate any such apparatus or any parking device otherwise than in the manner prescribed, or
b
displays a parking device otherwise than in the manner prescribed,
shall be guilty of an offence.
2
In subsection (5) of section 47 of this Act the reference to apparatus provided for the purposes of a parking place and operated by the insertion of coins F1or bank notes or by means of credit or debit cards shall include references to—
a
any such apparatus as is referred to in section 51(2)(d) of this Act, and
F2b
any such device as is referred to in section 51(4) of this Act;
and the said subsection (5) (as modified by this subsection) . . . F3 of section 47 of this Act shall apply to an offence under subsection (1) above as they apply to an offence under that section.
3
In section 48(1) of this Act the reference to a parking meter relating to the space in which a vehicle is left in a designated parking place shall include references to—
a
any such apparatus as is referred to in section 51(2)(d) of this Act which relates to the space in which a vehicle is so left, and
b
to a parking device used in respect of a vehicle left in a space in a designated parking place.