281 Designation of paying parking places on highways.E+W+S
(1)Section 45 of the M1Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (designation of paying parking places on highways) shall be amended as follows.
(2)In subsection (1), in the second paragraph (which requires a local authority outside Greater London which is not the traffic authority to obtain the consent of the traffic authority to any designation) the words outside Greater London shall cease to have effect.
(3)After subsection (1) there shall be inserted—
“(1A)Transport for London may not by virtue of subsection (1) above designate parking places on any highway which is not a GLA road.”
(4)In subsection (7), in the definition of local authority, at the end of paragraph (a) there shall be added “ or Transport for London ”.
(5)In subsection (7), in the definition of the local authority, after the words in whose area the site is there shall be added “unless the site is in Greater London, in which case—
(i)if the site is on a GLA road and the parking place is, or is proposed to be, designated by Transport for London, the local authority means Transport for London;
(ii)if the site is on a GLA road and the parking place is, or is proposed to be, designated by the London local authority in whose area the site is, the local authority means that London local authority; and
(iii)if the site is on a highway which is not a GLA road, the local authority means the London local authority in whose area the site is.”
(6)After subsection (7) there shall be added—
“(8)In this section London local authority means the council of a London borough or the Common Council of the City of London.
(9)For the purposes of this section and sections 46 to 55 of this Act, Transport for London’s area shall be taken to be Greater London.”
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