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Disabled Persons’ Parking Badges Act 2013

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3Use of parking badges that are no longer valid

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(1)Section 21 of the 1970 Act is further amended as set out in subsections (2) and (3).

(2)After subsection (4B) there is inserted—

(4BZA)A person who in England and Wales drives a motor vehicle on a road (within the meaning of the Road Traffic Act 1988) at a time when a badge issued under this section is displayed on the vehicle is guilty of an offence if—

(a)the badge should have been returned to the issuing authority in compliance with regulations under subsection (6) or a notice under subsection (7A)(b), or

(b)the badge has been cancelled under subsection (7AB).

(3)In subsection (4C), for “(4B) or” there is substituted “(4B), (4BZA) or”.

(4)In section 117 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (wrongful use of disabled person’s badge), after subsection (1) there is inserted—

(1ZA)In subsection (1) in its application to the use of a vehicle in England and Wales, the reference to a badge issued under section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 is to be read as not including a badge that—

(a)should have been returned to the issuing authority in compliance with regulations under subsection (6) of that section or a notice under subsection (7A)(b) of that section, or

(b)has been cancelled under subsection (7AB) of that section.

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