# Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, Section 52: Offences and proceedings in connection with parking devices and associated apparatus.

Extent: E+W+S

(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.
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(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/section/52 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984/section-52
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