The Functions of Traffic Wardens (Amendment) Order 1993

• Citation: S.I. 1993/1334
• Sections: 4

Section 1

(1) This Order may be cited as the Functions of Traffic Wardens (Amendment) Order 1993, and shall come into force on 1st June 1993.

(2) This Order does not extend to Scotland.

(3) In this Order, “the 1970 Order ” means the Functions of Traffic Wardens Order 1970 .

Section 2

In article 3(2) of the 1970 Order, after sub-paragraph (e), there shall be added the following sub-paragraphs—

(f) section 100(3) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (the interim disposal of vehicles removed under section 99 of that Act );

(g) sections 104 and 105 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (the immobilisation of illegally parked vehicles) .

Section 3

For article 3(4), there shall be substituted the following—

(4) References in section 164(1), (2) and (6) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to a constable or police constable shall include references to a traffic warden only where—

(a) the traffic warden has reasonable cause to believe that there has been committed an offence by causing a vehicle, or any part of it, to stop in contravention of regulations made under section 25 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 or an offence in contravention of section 22 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (leaving vehicles in dangerous positions); or

(b) the traffic warden is employed to perform functions in connection with the custody of vehicles removed from a road or land in the open air in pursuance of regulations made under section 99 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 or from a parking place in pursuance of a street parking place order, and he has reasonable cause to believe that there has been committed an offence in respect of a vehicle by its obstructing a road, or waiting, or being left or parked, or being loaded or unloaded, in a road.

Section 4

Paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the 1970 Order shall be amended by—

(i) the addition, after sub-paragraph (1)(d), of the following—

(e) committed by causing a vehicle, or any part of it, to stop in contravention of regulations made under section 25 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984,

(ii) the omission from sub-paragraph (2) of the words from “other” to “positions)”.