{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poole-harbour-revision-order-2012/article-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poole-harbour-revision-order-2012/article-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2012/1777",
  "legislation_title": "The Poole Harbour Revision Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/poole-harbour-revision-order-2012",
  "path": "article/24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Immobilisation of vehicles illegally parked",
  "text": "(1) If a vehicle is left on the harbour premises in the circumstances within article 23(1) an authorised officer may—\n(a) fix an immobilisation device to the vehicle while it remains in the place in which the officer finds it; or\n(b) move it from that place to another place on the harbour premises and fix an immobilisation device to it in that other place.\n(2) The power under paragraph (1) is validly exercised only if—\n(a) the notices required by paragraph (8) were on display when the vehicle was left on the harbour premises; and\n(b) the authorised officer affixes to the vehicle a notice—\n(i) indicating that such a device has been fixed to the vehicle and warning that no attempt should be made to drive it or otherwise put it in motion until it has been released from that device; and\n(ii) specifying the steps to be taken in order to secure its release, including any charge payable.\n(3) A vehicle to which an immobilisation device has been fixed in accordance with this article may only be released from that device by or under the direction of an authorised officer.\n(4) The Commissioners must ensure that a vehicle to which an immobilisation device has been fixed in accordance with paragraph (1) is released from that device when the steps specified in accordance with paragraph (2)(b)(ii) have been taken.\n(5) Any person who, without being authorised to do so in accordance with paragraph (3), removes or attempts to remove an immobilisation device fixed to a vehicle in accordance with this article is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.\n(6) Where a vehicle is moved in accordance with this article before an immobilisation device is fixed to it, any power of removal under article 23 which was exercisable in respect of that vehicle immediately before it was so moved shall continue to be exercisable while the vehicle remains in the place to which it was so moved.\n(7) In this article “immobilisation device” means any device or appliance which is approved as an immobilisation device for the purposes of section 104 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.\n(8) The Commissioners must cause a notice stating the general effect of paragraph (1) to be displayed in a prominent position at each place where a road accessible to vehicles enters any part of the harbour premises.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 24 in force at 23.7.2012, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c.27."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2012/1777/article/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:26:15.018635+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."
}