{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hyde-park-and-the-regents-park-vehicle-parking-regulations-1994/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hyde-park-and-the-regents-park-vehicle-parking-regulations-1994/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/432",
  "legislation_title": "The Hyde Park and The Regent’s Park (Vehicle Parking) Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/hyde-park-and-the-regents-park-vehicle-parking-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations\n“constable” includes a park constable within the meaning of section 3 of the Parks Regulation Act 1872;\n“long-term” means a continuous period not exceeding four hours;\n“official notice” means a notice exhibited by or on behalf of the Secretary of State;\n“Park” means either Hyde Park or The Regent’s Park as the case may be;\n“parking place” means a place shown on an official notice as being appointed under these Regulations for the time being by the Secretary of State as a place for either long-term or short-term parking for vehicles;\n“parking ticket” means a ticket, obtained for the parking of the vehicle in question from a machine located by authority of the Secretary of State in the Park in which the vehicle is parked or from a person authorised to dispense a ticket by the Secretary of State, which shows the charge paid and the period in respect of which the charge has been paid;\n“short-term” means a continuous period not exceeding two hours;\n“valid parking ticket” means a parking ticket showing as the period in respect of which the charge has been paid a period comprising the entire period during which the vehicle remains parked;\n“vehicle” means a mechanically propelled vehicle intended or adapted for use on roads.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1872 c. 15; as amended by section 2 of, and para 1 of the Schedule to, the Parks Regulation (Amendment) Act 1974 (c. 29)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/432/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:40:40.015998+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}