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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991-amendment-of-schedule-3-scotland-order-1998/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991-amendment-of-schedule-3-scotland-order-1998/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2018",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic Act 1991 (Amendment of Schedule 3) (Scotland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991-amendment-of-schedule-3-scotland-order-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order, which extends to Scotland only, amends Schedule 3 to the Road Traffic Act 1991 by applying to Scotland that Schedule as already amended for England and Wales. Schedule 3 enables the designation of permitted and special parking areas outside London. The effect of the amendments is to include within Schedule 3 certain provisions of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27) so that parking contraventions will give rise to a civil liability by the imposition of a penalty charge rather than being dealt with as criminal offences.\nIn permitted parking areas contravention of an order under section 35 of the 1984 Act by a stationary vehicle will no longer be an offence; nor will it be an offence if a vehicle contravenes provisions of a traffic regulation order prohibiting or restricting the waiting, loading or unloading of vehicles on a road in the permitted parking area.\nIn special parking areas it will no longer be an offence if a vehicle contravenes a temporary prohibition or restriction on waiting, loading or unloading.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2018/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:21:22.329820+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."
}