The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (England) General (Amendment) Regulations 2008

• Citation: S.I. 2008/1513
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (England) General (Amendment) Regulations 2008 and shall come into force on 3rd July 2008.

Section 2 Preliminary

The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (England) General Regulations 2007 shall be amended as follows.

Section 3 Interpretation

In regulation 2, the following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph (1)—

(1A) References in these Regulations, except in regulation 6, to a “civil enforcement officer” include, in relation to parking contraventions in a civil enforcement area outside Greater London relating to a parking place provided or authorised under section 32(1)(a) or (b) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 , a parking attendant appointed under section 63A of that Act.

Section 4 Evidence of contravention

For regulation 6 there shall be substituted—

Evidence of contravention

(6)

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a penalty charge shall not be imposed except on the basis of—

(a) a record produced by an approved device; or

(b) information given by a civil enforcement officer as to conduct observed by that officer.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to parking contraventions in a civil enforcement area outside Greater London relating to a parking place provided or authorised under section 32(1)(a) or (b) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.