Road Traffic Act 1960

43 Removal of vehicles illegally, obstructively or dangerously parked, abandoned, or broken down

(1) The appropriate Minister may by regulations make provision for the removal from roads, and safe custody, or for the moving from one position on a road to another position on that or another road, of, and of the loads carried by, vehicles which have been permitted to remain at rest on a road—

(a) in contravention of any statutory prohibition or restriction, or

(b) in such a position or in such condition or in such circumstances as to cause obstruction to other persons using the road or as to be likely to cause danger to such other persons, or

(c) in such a position or in such condition or in such circumstances as to appear to have been abandoned,

or which have broken down.

(2) Regulations under this section may provide for repealing byelaws dealing with the same subject matter as the regulations, and for suspending, while the regulations remain in force, any power of making such byelaws.

(3) Expenses payable out of a police fund reasonably incurred in the execution of duties imposed by regulations under this section shall be recoverable by or on behalf of the chief officer of police from the owner of the vehicle, and in England or Wales shall be so recoverable summarily as a civil debt, and sums so recovered shall be paid into the police fund.

In this subsection " police fund " has the same meaning as in the Police Pensions Act, 1921.

(4) Regulations under this section may be made so as to apply either generally or in such circumstances only as may be specified in the regulations.