Road Traffic Act 1960

82 Power to enable London local authorities to provide parking places

(1) The Minister of Housing and Local Government may by order made by statutory instrument confer upon the Common Council of the City of London and upon metropolitan borough councils and, except in the City of London, upon the London County Council the like powers as, by the last foregoing section, are conferred upon the councils of county boroughs and county districts.

(2) An order under this section shall provide that the powers conferred by the order shall not be exercised except after consultation with the Minister.

(3) No such order shall confer power to authorise the use as a parking place of any part of a street except for providing means of entrance to and egress from a parking place.

(4) The powers conferred upon the London County Council under this section shall not extend to any area on or under a street repairable by the inhabitants at large except with the consent of the highway authority concerned.

(5) An order under this section may incorporate with adaptations such of the provisions of the Public Health Acts, 1875 to 1932, the Local Government Act, 1933 or the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act, 1935 (including provisions as to the compulsory acquisition of land) as may be necessary for the purpose of the application of the last foregoing section to London.

(6) An order made under this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order made in like manner.