The Control of Off-Street Parking (England and Wales) Order 1978

Regulations of county council for prescribing the nature and extent of the control

4.—(1) Regulations designating any area within a county as a controlled area may—

(a) include provision—

(i) as to the maximum number of parking spaces to be made available at licensed parking places for all, or for any respectively, of the descriptions of parking referred to in Article 7(b) of this Order in, or in any specified part of, any controlled area comprised within the area of a particular local authority,

(ii) requiring that, in the case of licensed parking places in a particular controlled area or part of a controlled area, all or any of the matters referred to in Article 7(c) of this Order shall or as the case may be shall not be the subject of conditions specified in the licence;

(iii) regulating the conditions which may be imposed with respect to any of the matters aforesaid;

(b) prescribe forms to be used in the county for the purpose of this Order and any other matters which under this Order are to be prescribed as respects the county;

(c) include such supplementary, incidental and consequential provision as appears to the county council to be necessary for the purposes of this Order in relation to the county; and

(d) make different provision as respects like matters in different circumstances;

and the power to make such regulations shall include power to vary or revoke them.

(2) The provisions of Part I of the Schedule to this Order shall apply to the making of regulations for designating an area as a controlled area or for varying or revoking any such regulations previously made.

(3) Every local authority whose area comprises the whole or any part of a controlled area, or in whose area the whole or a part of a controlled area lies, shall exercise their functions under Articles 6 and 7 of this Order as respects the controlled area or the part thereof, as the case may be, in conformity with any regulations of the county council for the time being in force by virtue of this Article.