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Regulation 6 Additional conditions for front line licences for the immobilisation, restriction, removal of vehicles

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

The granting of a licence to a person to engage in front line licensable conduct which involves the carrying out of any activities specified in regulation 4(4)(b) or (c) (immobilisation, restriction and removal of vehicles) shall be subject to the conditions specified in paragraph (2).

(2)

The conditions specified for the purposes of this paragraph are—

(a)

the licensee shall not immobilise, remove or restrict a vehicle in accordance with paragraph 3 or 3A of Schedule 2 to the 2001 Act if the vehicle is an invalid carriage or if a valid disability badge is displayed on the vehicle or if the vehicle is an emergency vehicle which is in use; and

(b)

the licensee shall, on collecting any charge for the release of a vehicle that has been immobilised, removed or restricted in accordance with paragraph 3 or 3A of Schedule 2 to the 2001 Act, provide a receipt which contains the information specified in paragraph (3).

(3)

The information specified for the purposes of this paragraph is—

(a)

the location where the vehicle was immobilised, removed or restricted;

(b)

the date on which the vehicle was immobilised, removed or restricted;

(c)

the name and signature of the licensee; and

(d)

the licence number of the licensee.

(4)

In this regulation—

(a)

“invalid carriage” has the same meaning as in section 253(5) of the Road Traffic Act 1960f1;

(b)

“disability badge” means a badge issued under section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970f2; and

(c)

“emergency vehicle” has the same meaning as in regulation 3(2) of the Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989f3.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1960 c. 16. Section 253(5) has been amended by S.I. 1981/1373.

f2

1970 c. 44. Section 21 has been amended by the: Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70); Transport Act 1982 (c. 49); Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27); Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51); Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40); Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19); Local Government (Scotland) Act 1994; Transport (Scotland) Act 2001; the Traffic Management Act 2004 (c. 18); the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (c. 13); and Transport (Scotland) Act 2005. The amendments made by the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 are only in force in relation to England and those made by the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 are not yet in force.

f3

S.I. 1989/1796. Regulation 3(2) has been amended by S.I. 1994/2280 and S.I. 1994/2567.