{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/off-street-parking-bye-laws-northern-ireland-1996/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/off-street-parking-bye-laws-northern-ireland-1996/section-1.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": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These bye-laws may be cited as the Off-Street Parking Bye-Laws (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 1st July 1996.\n(2) In these bye-laws—\n“designated car park” means any car park specified in Part III of Schedule 1;\n“driver” means the person who whether as owner or otherwise has the charge or control of a vehicle or being present is entitled to give orders to the person having charge or control thereof;\n“intoxicating liquor” means spirits, wine, beer, cider and any fermented, distilled or spirituous liquor with an alcohol content exceeding 1.2 per cent by volume;\n“light goods vehicle” means a motor vehicle, constructed or adapted for use for the carriage of goods, the permissible maximum weight of which does not exceed 3.5 tonnes;\n“motor car” means a mechanically propelled vehicle constructed solely for the carriage of passengers and their effects, seating not more than 6 persons in addition to the driver;\n“motor cycle” means a mechanically propelled vehicle not being an invalid carriage or motor car having fewer than 4 wheels and the weight of which unladen does not exceed 410 kgs;\n“parking bay” means a space which is marked out in a parking place for the leaving of a vehicle;\n“pay and display machine” means an apparatus approved by the Department for the purposes of these bye-laws being an apparatus designed to issue a ticket indicating the day and time at which it was issued and the number of hours for which it is valid;\n“public service vehicle” means a mechanically propelled vehicle constructed or adapted to carry more than 8 seated passengers in addition to the driver, and used in standing or plying for hire, or used to carry passengers for hire.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/237/section/1",
    "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."
}