Paragraph 2

(1)

Section 4 (service of penalty charge notice on the basis of information provided by camera etc) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

For subsection (2) there shall be substituted—

“(2)

Where a participating council, on the basis of information provided by the use of a camera or any other device, has reason to believe that a penalty charge is payable under Part II of the 1991 Act in respect of a vehicle which is stationary—

(a)

in a designated parking place for which the council is the local authority within the meaning of section 45(7) of the Act of 1984^f1; or

(b)

on road,other than a GLA road or GLA side road, in a special parking area in the area of the council,

the council may serve a penalty charge notice on the person appearing to them to be the owner of the vehicle.

(2A)

Where Transport for London, on the basis of information provided by the use of a camera or other device, has reason to believe that a penalty charge is payable under Part II of the Act of 1991 in respect of a vehicle which is stationary—

(a)

on a GLA road or GLA side road in a designated parking place for which Transport for London is the local authority within the meaning of section 45(7) of the 1984 Act; or

(b)

on a GLA road or GLA side road in a special parking area but not in a designated parking place,

Transport for London may serve a penalty charge notice on the person appearing to it to be the owner of the vehicle.”

(3)

In subsection (3) for “A participating council may not serve a penalty charge notice” there shall be substituted “A penalty charge notice may not be served”.

(4)

In subsection (5)—

(a)

for “the council” (in the first place occurring) there shall be substituted “the council or, as the case may be, Transport for London”; and

(b)

for “the council who” (in the second place occurring) there shall be substituted “the body which”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: I.e. the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984: see the London Local Authorities Act 2000 section 3(1). Section 45(7) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 was amended by the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51) Schedule 5, paragraph 4(19), by the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19) Schedule 7, paragraph 38(3), Schedule 18 and by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 section 281.