{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/off-street-parking-bye-laws-northern-ireland-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/off-street-parking-bye-laws-northern-ireland-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/237",
  "legislation_title": "Off-Street Parking Bye-Laws (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/off-street-parking-bye-laws-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Bye-Laws.)\nThese Bye-Laws revoke and re-enact with minor amendments the Off-Street Parking Bye-Laws (Northern Ireland) 1994 and all subsequent amending bye-laws.\nThe principal provisions are as follows:—\nThey prescribe the waiting in a parking place of such classes of vehicles, in such position and on such days and during such hours as are specified.\nThey prescribe that the driver of a vehicle shall not permit it to wait in a parking place for longer than the maximum period permitted for waiting.\nThey prescribe that the driver of a vehicle using a parking place shall pay the appropriate charge in accordance with the scale of charges specified.\nThey prohibit the use of parking bays reserved for disabled persons' vehicles by any other vehicle.\nThey prescribe the method of operation of pay and display systems of collecting charges in car parks.\nThey prohibit trading in a car park.\nThey prohibit supermarket trolleys from multi-storey car parks.\nThey prohibit the use of a designated car park for the purpose of consuming intoxicating liquor.\nAny person who contravenes a Bye-Law shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale (£500) for each offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/237/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:35:35.917124+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."
}