Section 52 Offences and proceedings in connection with parking devices and associated apparatus.

England, Wales and Scotland

(1)

A person who, with intent to defraud,—

(a)

interferes with any apparatus referred to in section 51(2)(d) of this Act or with a parking device, or operates or attempts to operate any such apparatus or any parking device otherwise than in the manner prescribed, or

(b)

displays a parking device otherwise than in the manner prescribed,

shall be guilty of an offence.

F1(2)

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3)

In section 48(1) of this Act the reference to a parking meter relating to the space in which a vehicle is left in a designated parking place shall include references to—

(a)

any such apparatus as is referred to in section 51(2)(d) of this Act which relates to the space in which a vehicle is so left, and

(b)

to a parking device used in respect of a vehicle left in a space in a designated parking place.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: S. 52(2) repealed (13.9.1996) by S.I. 1996/1533, art. 2(1), Sch.