# The Road Traffic Act 1991 (Special Parking Area) (Scotland) Order 2003, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
Paragraph 2(4) of Schedule 3 to the Road Traffic Act 1991 provides that certain statutory provisions creating criminal offences for the contravention of parking restrictions are to cease to have effect in a special parking area, while the relevant order under paragraph 2(1) of that Schedule (designating all, or part, of an administrative area outside London a special parking area) is in force.
This Order amends paragraph 2(4) of Schedule 3 by adding to the list of offences which are respectively decriminalised therein, the offence of stopping on a part of a road identified as a stopping place for a bus.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2003/508/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1991-special-parking-area-scotland-order-2003/note
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