Part IV Parking Places
F5Parking attendants
F163A Parking attendants.
1
A local authority may provide for the supervision of parking places within their area by individuals to be known as parking attendants.
2
Parking attendants shall also have such other functions in relation to stationary vehicles as may be conferred by or under any other enactment.
3
A parking attendant shall be—
a
an individual employed by the authority; or
b
where the authority have made arrangements with any person for the purposes of this section, an individual employed by that person to act as a parking attendant.
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Parking attendants in an area that is a civil enforcement area for parking contraventions—
a
when exercising prescribed functions must wear such uniform as may be determined by the enforcement authority in accordance with guidance issued by the appropriate national authority, and
b
must not exercise any of those functions when not in uniform.
Expressions used in this subsection that are defined for the purposes of Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004 have the same meaning as in that Part.
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In this section “local authority” and “parking place” have the meanings given by section 32(4) of this Act F3except that Transport for London shall also be a local authority.
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For the purposes of this section, the area of Transport for London is Greater London.
S. 63A inserted (1.10.1991) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), s. 44(1); S.I. 1991/2054, art. 3,Sch.