The Road Traffic (Parking Adjudicators) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999

PART I Preliminary

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Parking Adjudicators) (England and Wales) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 27th July 1999.

(2) These Regulations apply to the areas designated as special parking areas or permitted parking areas by the Scheduled Orders.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1991 and, in the application of these Regulations in relation to an area, a reference to any provision of the Act is a reference to that provision of the Act as modified and applied to that area by virtue of one of the Scheduled Orders;

“appeal” means an appeal under section 72 of, or paragraph 5 of Schedule 6 to, the Act;

“adjudicator” means a parking adjudicator appointed under section 73 of the Act and authorised to act in relation to an area to which these Regulations apply;

“FAX” means the making of a facsimile copy of a document by the transmission of electronic signals;

“hearing” means an oral hearing;

“proper officer” means a member of the administrative staff provided under section 73 of the Act appointed to perform the duties of the proper officer under these Regulations;

“register” means the register in which appeals and decisions thereon are recorded in accordance with regulation 10(2); and

“the Scheduled Orders” means the Orders—

(a)

which were made under Schedule 3 to the Act designating permitted parking areas and special parking areas outside London; and

(b)

each of which is specified in column (2) of an item in the table in the Schedule to these Regulations, with its statutory instrument number specified in column (3) of the item and the number of any Order amending it in column (4).

(2) In these Regulations, in relation to an appeal or any process connected with an appeal,—

“appellant” means the person making the appeal;

“disputed decision” means the decision against which an appeal is brought under these Regulations;

“the local authority” means the local authority who made the disputed decision; and

“original representations” means the representations to the local authority under section 71 of, or paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to, the Act.