Disabled Persons’ Parking Badges (Scotland) Act 2014

5 Enforcement officers

(1) Section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (4BA)—

(a) after the word “constable” in the opening words there is inserted “or enforcement officer”,

(b) in paragraph (a), after the word “constable” there is inserted “or officer”.

(3) After subsection (4BB) there is inserted—

“(4BC) No offence is committed under subsection (4BB) if—

(a) the person requiring the badge to be produced is an enforcement officer, other than a traffic warden or parking attendant, and

(b) when requiring the badge to be produced, the officer does not produce appropriate evidence of the officer’s authority to exercise the power under subsection (4BA).”.

(4) For subsection (8A) there is substituted—

“(8A) In this section—

• “constable” has the meaning given by section 99(1) of the Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012,

• “enforcement officer” means—

  (a)

  a traffic warden,

  (b)

  a parking attendant, or

  (c)

  a person who—

  (i)

  is employed by a local authority or by a person with whom the authority have made arrangements for the purposes of this section, and

  (ii)

  is authorised in writing by the authority to exercise the powers in subsections (4BA) and (4D).”.