Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019

10 Interpretation

(1) In this Act—

• “accredited parking association” has the meaning given by section 5(3);

• “parking charge” has the meaning given by subsection (2);

• “the parking code” means the code issued under section 2(4) (as altered or replaced from time to time);

• “private parking facilities” means facilities for the parking of vehicles on relevant land;

• “public authority” means a public authority within the meaning of section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998, other than a court or tribunal;

• “the register” has the meaning given by section 5(4);

• “relevant land” has the meaning given by subsection (3);

• “vehicle” means a mechanically-propelled vehicle or a vehicle designed or adapted for towing by a mechanically-propelled vehicle.

(2) “Parking charge” has the meaning given by paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (recovery of unpaid parking charges), but in relation to Scotland that paragraph has effect for the purposes of this Act with the following modifications—

(a) references to tort are to be read as references to delict,

(b) in paragraph 2(3), paragraph (a), and the words “where no such requirements apply,” in paragraph (b), are to be treated as omitted, and

(c) “relevant land” has the meaning given by subsection (3) below.

(3) “Relevant land” has the meaning given by paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012, but in relation to Scotland that paragraph has effect for the purposes of this Act with the following modifications—

(a) the reference in paragraph 3(1)(a) to a highway maintainable at the public expense is to be read as a reference to a public road within the meaning of section 151(1) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984,

(b) the reference in paragraph 3(1)(b) to a parking place which is provided or controlled by a traffic authority is to be read as a reference to a parking place provided or controlled by—

(i) the Secretary of State,

(ii) the Scottish Ministers, or

(iii) a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, and

(c) the reference in paragraph 3(4) to an Act is to be taken to include an Act of the Scottish Parliament.