Paragraph 1 I1

England and Wales

(1)

Traffic wardens may be employed to enforce the law with respect to an offence—

(a)

committed in respect of a vehicle by its being left or parked on a road during the hours of darkness (as defined by the Road Transport Lighting Act 1957) without the lights or reflectors required by law; or

(b)

committed in respect of a vehicle by its obstructing a road, or waiting, or being left or parked, or being loaded or unloaded, in a road or other public place; or

(c)

committed in contravention of a provision of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1962;

(d)

created by section 42 of the Act of 1967 (offences relating to parking places on highways where charges made).

F1(e)

committed by causing a vehicle, or any part of it, to stop in contravention of regulations made under section 25 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984,

(2)

For the purposes of the enforcement of the law with respect to such of the offences described in sub-paragraph (1) of this paragraph as are offences to which section 80 of the Act of 1967 (which relates to the fixed penalty procedure) applies, F2... traffic wardens may exercise the functions conferred on constables by the said section 80 in an area to which the said section 80 extends.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. para. 1(1)(e) inserted (1.6.1993) by The Functions of Traffic Wardens (Amendment) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1334), arts. 1(1), 4(i)
F2: Words in Sch. para. 1(2) revoked (1.6.1993) by The Functions of Traffic Wardens (Amendment) Order 1993 (S.I. 1993/1334), arts. 1(1), 4(ii)

Commencement

I1: Sch. para. 1 in force at 1.1.1971, see art. 1(1)