Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967

37 Provisions supplementary to ss. 35 and 36.

(1) Where, under a designation order, vehicles may not be left at all times in the parking place designated by it—

(a) the parking place shall for the purpose of sections 36 and 42 of this Act be treated, as respects any time during which vehicles may not be left there in pursuance of the order, as if it were not designated by the order ;

(b) any vehicle left in the parking place which remains there at the beginning of a period during which vehicles may be left there in pursuance of the order shall for the purposes of those sections be treated as if it had been left there at the beginning of that period, but without prejudice to any rights or liabilities in respect of anything done or omitted at any time before the beginning or after the end of that period.

(2) A designation order may revoke the designation of any place as a parking place under section 6 or 28 of this Act, and such an order, or an order under either of those sections containing a designation of a place as a parking place, may provide that the designation shall not have effect as respects any time as respects which provision is made under section 35 of this Act for the leaving of vehicles in that place.

(3) Subject to sections 84A, 84B and 84C of this Act, the authority by whom a parking place is designated under section 35 of this Act may by order empower the local authority, the chief officer of police or any other person specified by or under the order to provide for the moving, in case of emergency, of vehicles left in the parking place, to suspend the use of the parking place or any part thereof on such occasions or in such circumstances as may be determined by or under the order, and to provide for the temporary removal of any parking meters installed at the parking place.

(4) Any local authority may acquire, whether by purchase or by hiring, such parking meters and other apparatus as appear to the authority to be required or likely to be required for the purposes of their functions under sections 35 and 36 of this Act and of this section.

(5) Where provision is made for the use of parking meters it shall be the duty of the local authority to take the prescribed steps for the periodical inspection of the meters and for dealing with any found to be out of order, and for securing the testing of the meters (both before they are brought into use and not less frequently thereafter than may be prescribed or on other prescribed occasions) and for recording in the prescribed manner the date on which and the person by whom a meter has been tested ; and in this subsection the expression " prescribed " means prescribed by order of the appropriate Minister made by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament, and the power to make an order under this subsection shall include power to make an order varying or revoking any previous order thereunder.

(6) Where provision is made for the use of apparatus other than parking meters, subsection (5) above shall apply to such apparatus as it applies to a parking meter.