Explanatory Notes

Royal Parks (Trading) Act 2000

2000 CHAPTER 13

20th July 2000

Commentary on Sections

Section 1: Park trading offences

10.Subsection (1 ) expands the scope of the power to make regulations under section 2(1 ) of the 1926 Act so as to permit the Commissioners of Works (now the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport) to designate particular provisions of such regulations as "park trading regulations".

11.Subsection (2) provides that a failure to comply with, or a contravention of, a park trading regulation is a "park trading offence" for the purposes of the Bill.