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175 Immobilisation etc.E+W
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(1)The appropriate national authority may by regulations make provision enabling or requiring charging schemes under this Part to make provision for or in connection with—
(a)the fitting of immobilisation devices to motor vehicles,
(b)the fixing of immobilisation notices to motor vehicles to which an immobilisation device has been fitted,
(c)the removal and storage of motor vehicles,
(d)the release of motor vehicles from immobilisation devices or from storage,
(e)the satisfaction of conditions before the release of a motor vehicle, and
(f)the sale or destruction of motor vehicles not released.
(2)A person commits an offence if he removes or interferes with an immobilisation notice fixed to a motor vehicle in accordance with provision included in a charging scheme under this Part by virtue of subsection (1) in contravention of such provision.
(3)A person commits an offence if he removes or attempts to remove an immobilisation device fitted to a motor vehicle in accordance with provision included in a charging scheme under this Part by virtue of subsection (1) in contravention of such provision.
(4)A person commits an offence if he intentionally obstructs a person exercising any power conferred on him by provision included in a charging scheme under this Part by virtue of subsection (1).
(5)A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.
(6)A person guilty of an offence under subsection (3) or (4) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.
(7)In this section “immobilisation device” has the same meaning as in section 104 of the M1Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.
(8)A charging scheme under this Part may not authorise or require the fitting of an immobilisation device to, or the removal of, a motor vehicle unless it is on a road.
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I1S. 175 partly in force; s. 175 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 275(1)(2); s. 175 in force (E.) at 1.2.2001 by S.I. 2001/57, art. 3(2), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (subject to the savings in Sch. 3 Pt. 2); s. 175(1) wholly in force and s. 175(2)-(8) in force for specified purposes (W.) at 1.8.2001 by S.I. 2001/2788, art. 2, Sch. 1 paras. 13, 14
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