SCHEDULE 1 MODIFICATIONS OF PROVISIONS OF PART II OF THE ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1991 APPLIED IN RELATION TO THE PARKING AREA
4 (1) Section 73 shall be modified as follows.
(2) For subsections (1) to (3) there shall be substituted—

“1 The functions conferred on the parking authorities by this section shall be discharged by them through a joint committee (“the Joint Committee”) which has been set up in pursuance of arrangements entered into under section 101(5) of the Local Government Act 1972 and of which the parking authority and at least two other local authorities are constituent authorities.
1972 c. 70.
2 In subsection (1) “local authorities” means authorities which are county or district councils in England or county or county borough councils in Wales in whose areas permitted parking areas or special parking areas have been designated under Schedule 3 to this Act.
3 The parking authority shall—
(a) with the consent of the Lord Chancellor appoint persons to act as parking adjudicators for the purposes of this Act in relation to the parking area;
(b) provide or secure the provision of accommodation and administrative staff for parking adjudicators so appointed; and
(c) determine the places at which such parking adjudicators are to sit.”

(3) In subsection (5) for the words “the appointing authorities” there shall be substituted “the parking authority”.
(4) Subsections (8) to (10) shall be omitted.
(5) After subsection (12) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

“12A The Road Traffic (Parking Adjudicators) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 shall apply to the parking area as they apply to the areas designated by the Orders listed in the Schedule to those Regulations.
S.I.1999/1918.”