Traffic attendants
Traffic attendants3.
F1(1)
The Department may provide for the enforcement by individuals of contraventions specified in Schedule 1 in relation to which the Department is the enforcement authority.
(1A)
A district council may provide for the enforcement by individualsof contraventions specified in Schedule 1 in relation to which the council is the enforcement authority.
(1B)
The individuals referred to in paragraphs (1) and (1A) are to beknown as traffic attendants.
(2)
A traffic attendant must be—
(a)
an individual employed by F2an enforcement authority ; or
(b)
where F2an enforcement authority has made arrangements with any person for the purposes of this Article, an individual employed by that person to act as a traffic attendant.
F3(2A)
In relation to any function conferred by this Order on anenforcement authority, a reference to a traffic attendant is a reference to a traffic attendant employed by, or in pursuance of arrangements made by, that enforcement authority under paragraph (2).
(3)
Traffic attendants—
(a)
when exercising specified functions shall wear such uniform as the F4enforcement authority may determine; and
(b)
shall not exercise any of those functions when not in uniform.
(4)
In paragraph (3)(a) “specified functions” means—
(a)
functions under Article 5 (issue of penalty charge notice by traffic attendant);
(b)
functions under section 14(4BA) or 14A(5) of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 53) (enforcement powers relating to disabled persons' badges); and
(c)
such other functions as may be prescribed.