Greater London Authority Act 1999

Valid from 08/05/2000

Provision of workplace parking places E+W+S

3 (1) For the purposes of this Schedule and section 296 of this Act, the cases where a person provides a workplace parking place are those cases where the person is the occupier of premises and provides at those premises a parking place which is for the time being occupied by a motor vehicle used—

(a) by a relevant person, or

(b) by an employee, agent, supplier, business customer or business visitor of a relevant person, or

(c) by a pupil or student attending a course of education or training provided by a relevant person, or

(d) where the Authority or a London borough council is a relevant person, by the Mayor or a member of the Assembly or, as the case may be, of the council,

for attending a place at which the relevant person carries on business at or in the vicinity of the premises.

(2) In this paragraph “relevant person” means—

(a) the person who provides the parking place in question;

(b) any other person with whom that person has entered into arrangements to provide the parking place (whether or not for that other person’s own use); or

(c) any person who is associated with a person who falls within paragraph (a) or (b) above.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(c) above any two persons are “associated” if and only if—

(a) one is a company of which the other (directly or indirectly) has control; or

(b) both are companies of which a third person (directly or indirectly) has control.

(4) For the purposes of this paragraph—

• “business” includes—

  (a)

  any trade, profession, vocation or undertaking;

  (b)

  the functions of any office holder;

  (c)

  the provision of any course of education or training; and

  (d)

  the functions of, or any activities carried on by, a government department, local authority or other statutory body;

• “business customer”, in relation to a relevant person, means a client or customer of the relevant person who is attending at the premises of the relevant person for the purposes of a business carried on by that client or customer;

• “business visitor”, in relation to a relevant person, means an individual who—

  (a)

  in the course of his employment, or

  (b)

  in the course of carrying on a business or for the purposes of a business carried on by him,

  is visiting the relevant person or any premises whose occupier is the relevant person;

• “supplier”, in relation to a relevant person, means—

  (a)

  a person supplying, or seeking to supply, goods or services to the relevant person for the purposes of a business carried on by the relevant person; or

  (b)

  any agent or sub-contractor of such a person.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 24 para. 3 wholly in force at 3.7.2000; Sch. 24 para. 3 in force at Royal Assent for certain purposes see s. 425(2); Sch. 24 para. 3 in force for certain further purposes at 8.5.2000 and at 3.7.2000 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2000/801, art. 2(2)(b)(c), Sch. Pts. 2, 3