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The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (England) General (Amendment) Regulations 2009

S.I. 2009/478 · Made 3 March 2009

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Road Traffic, England

Made 3rd March 2009

Laid before Parliament 6th March 2009

Coming into force 31st March 2009

These Regulations are made by the Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 72, 73(3), 79 and 89 of the Traffic Management Act 2004f1 and by the Lord Chancellor in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 78 and 89 of that Act:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2004 c. 18; section 79 was amended by the Disability Discrimination Act 2005 (c. 13), Schedule 1, paragraph 48.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Revocation
  3. 3Preliminary
  4. 4Interpretation
  5. 5Evidence of contravention
  6. Signature
  7. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (England) General (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and shall come into force on 31st March 2009.

2Revocation

The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (England) General (Amendment) Regulations 2008f1 are revoked.

3Preliminary

The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (England) General Regulations 2007f1 shall be amended as follows.

4Interpretation

In regulation 2, paragraph (1A) shall be omitted.

5Evidence of contravention

For regulation 6, there shall be substituted—

“Evidence of contravention

6.

A penalty charge shall not be imposed except on the basis of—

(a)

a record produced by an approved device; or

(b)

information given by a civil enforcement officer as to conduct observed by that officer.”

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Paul Clark

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Transport

3rd March 2009

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Bridget Prentice

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Ministry of Justice

2nd March 2009

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke the Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (England) General (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (regulation 2) and revoke the amendments made by those Regulations to the Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (England) General Regulations 2008 (regulations 3 and 4). Regulation 5 reinstates regulation 6 of the latter Regulations to substantially the form in which it was originally made.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.