Part 2

Parking etc.

Parking on footways and footpaths
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1
Section 15 (parking on footways, grass verges, etc) of the Greater London Council (General Powers) Act 1974 (c. xxiv) is amended as follows.
2
In subsection (1)—
a
for “on any part of an urban road” there is substituted “on or over any part of a road”;
b
after “carriageway” the words “, or on or over a footpath,” are inserted.
3
In subsection (4)—
a
“—(a)” is inserted after “the parking of vehicles”;
b
for “on part of, any part of an urban road” there is substituted “on or over a road or part of a road”;
c
after “other than a carriageway” the words “; or (b) on or over a footpath or any part of a footpath” are inserted;
d
for “urban road” (where those words appear for the second time) there is substituted “road or footpath”.
4
In subsection (5), for “urban road” there is substituted “road or footpath”.
5
In subsection (12)—
a
the following definition is inserted in the appropriate place—
“footpath” means a highway over which the public have a right of way on foot only, not being a footway;
;
b
in the definition of “carriageway”, for “an urban road” there is substituted “a road”;
c
in the definition of “footway”, for “an urban road” there is substituted “a road”;
d
the definition of “urban road” is omitted.