The Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Exemptions for Disabled Persons) (England) Regulations 2000

Exemptions from prohibitions on waiting at all times or during specified periods

8.—(1) This regulation applies to an order made under section 1, 6, 9, 35, 45 or 46 of the 1984 Act which includes a provision which–

(a) prohibits (except for the purposes of loading or unloading) the waiting of vehicles, or any class of vehicles, in a road at all times of day or during one or more specified periods of the day;

(b) does not apply to a bus lane or cycle lane during its hours of operation; and

(c) is not a provision of the kind referred to in regulation 7(1).

(2) An order to which this regulation applies shall include an exemption from the prohibition in accordance with whichever of paragraphs (3) and (4) is appropriate in favour of any vehicle displaying a disabled person’s badge in the relevant position.

(3) Where the period of the prohibition does not exceed 3 hours the exemption shall be for the whole of that period.

(4) Where the period of the prohibition exceeds 3 hours the exemption shall be for a period of 3 hours subject to the conditions that–

(a) the period of exempted waiting does not begin less than one hour after a previous period of exempted waiting by the same vehicle in the same road on the same day;

(b) a parking disc is displayed in the relevant position on the vehicle marked to show the quarter hour period during which the period of exempted waiting began.

(5) In this regulation “parking disc” means a device which–

(a) is 125 millimetres square and coloured blue, if issued on or after 1st April 2000 or orange, if issued before that date;

(b) has been issued by a local authority and has not ceased to be valid; and

(c) is capable of showing the quarter hour period during which a period of waiting has begun.