Modification of the 1984 Act

4.—(1) Section 55 of the 1984 Act shall have effect in relation to Transport for London as if—

(a)at the end of subsection (1) there were inserted—

and of the income from additional parking charges (within the meaning of section 74(12) of the Road Traffic Act 1991(1)) received by it in respect of vehicles found within the special parking area and the expenditure incurred by them in the discharge of functions exercisable by them in relation to the special parking area by virtue of Part II of the Road Traffic Act 1991; and

(b)after subsection (1) there were inserted—

(1A) In subsection (1) above references to “the special parking area” are to the area designated as a special parking area by the Road Traffic Special Parking Area (GLA Roads and GLA Side Roads) Order 2004.

(2) Section 102(2) of the 1984 Act (charges for removal, storage and disposal of vehicles) shall have effect in relation to a vehicle found within the special parking area as if for paragraph (d) there were substituted—

(d)a London authority shall be entitled to recover from any person responsible such charges as they may require in respect of the removal, storage and disposal of a vehicle removed from—

(i)a parking place designated under section 6, 9 or 45 of this Act or otherwise provided or controlled by that authority, or

(ii)a place where the vehicle was stationary in circumstances in which an offence would have been committed in respect of the vehicle but for section 76(3) of the Road Traffic Act 1991.

(1)

Section 74 was substituted by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 section 284.