Transport (Scotland) Act 2019

78Exemptions etc.

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(1)A workplace parking licensing scheme must provide for the exemptions described in section 79.

(2)A workplace parking licensing scheme may otherwise provide for—

(a)specific premises, or premises of a specified description,

(b)premises with a specified number of parking places (or fewer), or

(c)descriptions of persons or motor vehicles (including descriptions by reference to any parking places provided for the exclusive use of such persons or motor vehicles),

to be exempt from the scheme or from paying charges under the scheme.

(3)The same premises must not be subject to more than one workplace parking licensing scheme at the same time.

(4)The Scottish Ministers may by regulations, following consultation with such persons as they consider appropriate, make further provision in relation to exemptions, including by—

(a)exempting from workplace parking licensing schemes (or requiring schemes to exempt) such premises, persons or vehicles (or descriptions of premises, persons or vehicles) as may be specified in the regulations, and

(b)prohibiting the exemption from schemes of premises, persons or vehicles of such descriptions as may be specified in the regulations.