Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27)

Part IV E+W+S Parking Places

Parking on highways for payment E+W+S

52 Offences and proceedings in connection with parking devices and associated apparatus. E+W+S

(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.

F1 (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(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.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 52(2) repealed (13.9.1996) by S.I. 1996/1533, art. 2(1), Sch.