Traffic attendants

Traffic attendants

3.—(1) The Department may provide for the enforcement of contraventions specified in Schedule 1 by individuals to be known as traffic attendants.

(2) A traffic attendant must be—

(a)an individual employed by the Department; or

(b)where the Department has made arrangements with any person for the purposes of this Article, an individual employed by that person to act as a traffic attendant.

(3) Traffic attendants—

(a)when exercising specified functions shall wear such uniform as the Department 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.