Part III Road user charging and workplace parking levy

C1Chapter II Workplace parking levy

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Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Licensing schemes

I1182 Workplace parking places.

1

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—

    1. a

      any trade, profession, vocation or undertaking,

    2. b

      the functions of any office holder,

    3. c

      the provision of any course of education or training, and

    4. d

      the functions of, or any activities carried on by, a government department or a 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 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—

    1. a

      in the course of his employment, or

    2. 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,

  • “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—

    1. 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

    2. b

      any agent or sub-contractor of such a person.

5

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.