Part III Road user charging and workplace parking levy
C1Chapter II Workplace parking levy
Licensing schemes
I1182 Workplace parking places.
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For the purposes of this Part a workplace parking place is provided at any premises at any time if a parking place provided at the premises is at that time occupied by a motor vehicle (other than an exempt vehicle) used—
a
by a relevant person,
b
by an employee, agent, supplier, business customer or business visitor of a relevant person,
c
by a pupil or student attending a course of education or training provided by a relevant person, or
d
where a body whose affairs are controlled by its members is a relevant person, by a member of the body engaged in the carrying on of any business of the body,
for attending a place at which the relevant person carries on business at or in the vicinity of the premises.
2
In this section “relevant person” means—
a
the person who provides the parking place in question (“the provider”),
b
any person with whom the provider has entered into arrangements to provide the parking place (whether or not for that person’s own use), or
c
any person who is associated with the provider or a person within paragraph (b).
3
For the purposes of subsection (2)(c) 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 section—
“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 or a local authority or other statutory body,
- a
“business customer”, in relation to a relevant person, means a client or customer of the relevant person who is attending at any premises occupied by 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 occupied by the relevant person,
- a
“employee” means a person employed under a contract of service or apprenticeship, whether express or implied, and (if express) whether oral or in writing, and
“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.
- a
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The appropriate national authority may make regulations amending the preceding provisions of this section for the purpose of adding, removing or varying cases where, for the purposes of this Part, a workplace parking place is provided.
Pt. 3 Chs. 2, 3: functions made exercisable concurrently (28.2.2024) by The East Midlands Combined County Authority Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/232), regs. 1(2), 18