Legislation – The Civil Enforcement of Road Traffic Contraventions (Approved Devices, Charging Guidelines and General Provisions) (England) Regulations 2022

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Introduction

PART 1
Preliminary

1 Citation, commencement, extent and application

2 Interpretation

3 Service by post or electronically

4 Approved Devices

PART 2
Penalty charges for relevant road traffic contraventions

5 Imposition of penalty charges for relevant road traffic contraventions

6 Person by whom a penalty charge is to be paid

7 Evidence of contravention

8 Criminal proceedings for relevant road traffic contraventions

9 Penalty charge notices for parking contraventions: service by civil enforcement officers

10 Penalty charge notices for relevant road traffic contraventions: enforcement authority

11 Circumstances in which notification of a penalty charge for a parking contravention on a road in a civil enforcement area may be given otherwise than by fixing a notice to the vehicle

12 Removal of, or interference with, a penalty charge notice

PART 3
Immobilisation of vehicles for parking contraventions

13 Power to immobilise vehicles

14 Limitations on the power to immobilise vehicles

15 Release of immobilised vehicles

PART 4
Adjudicators

16 Appointment etc of adjudicators

17 Adjudication process and remuneration of adjudicators: expenses of the relevant enforcement authorities

18 Discharge of functions of enforcement authorities relating to adjudicators: in Greater London

19 Discharge of functions of enforcement authorities relating to adjudicators: outside Greater London

PART 5
Enforcement of penalty charges

20 Notice to owner

21 Charge certificate

22 Enforcement of charge certificate

23 Invalid notices

PART 6
Financial provisions

CHAPTER 1 Greater London

24 Setting the levels of charges applicable in Greater London

25 Modification of section 55 of the RTRA 1984: London authorities

CHAPTER 2 Outside Greater London

26 Guidelines for the level of charges applicable outside Greater London

27 Modification of section 55 of the RTRA 1984: parking contraventions outside Greater London

28 Income and expenditure in connection with OGL bus lane contraventions

29 Income and expenditure in connection with OGL moving traffic contraventions

30 Surpluses to be carried forward

31 Use of surpluses

PART 7
Consequential, Transitional and Savings Provisions

32 Revocations

33 Transitional provisions and savings: general

34 Transitional provisions and savings in connection with the revocation of the 2007 General Regulations: existing contraventions, existing offences and related matters

35 Transitional provisions and savings: outstanding penalty charges

36 Transitional provisions and savings in connection with the revocation of the 2007 General Regulations: adjudicators and related reports

37 Transitional provisions and savings in connection with the revocation of the 2007 General Regulations: arbitration

38 Transitional provisions and savings in connection with the revocation of the 2007 General Regulations: accounts kept by a London authority

39 Transitional provisions and savings in connection with the revocation of the 2007 General Regulations: accounts kept by enforcement authorities outside Greater London

40 Transitional provisions and savings: approved devices

41 Transitional provisions and savings: charging guidelines

42 Consequential amendments

PART 8
Amendments related to traffic signs that are subject to civil enforcement

43 Traffic signs that are subject to civil enforcement

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 Specified requirements for approved devices

SCHEDULE 2 Penalty charge notices

SCHEDULE 3 Guidelines for the setting by enforcement authorities of charges for relevant road traffic contraventions etc outside Greater London

SCHEDULE 4 Consequential Amendments

SCHEDULE 5 Amendments relating to traffic signs

Signature

Explanatory note

PART 6Financial provisions

CHAPTER 1Greater London

Setting the levels of charges applicable in Greater London24.

(1)

The functions conferred on the London local authorities by Part 2 of Schedule 9 to the TMA 2004 (charges applicable in Greater London) in relation to parking contraventions committed on or after the commencement date are to be exercised by those authorities jointly by means of the single joint committee set up in pursuance of regulation 18 (“the Joint Committee”).

(2)

No person who represents Transport for London on the Joint Committee may take any part in any proceedings of the Joint Committee so far as they relate to the discharge by the Joint Committee of functions conferred on the London local authorities by Part 2 of Schedule 9 to the TMA 2004.

(3)

Any relevant arrangements in force immediately before the commencement date are to continue in force and have effect as if made under this regulation, until such time as they are replaced by arrangements made under this regulation.

(4)

Any relevant arrangements may, whilst they continue to have effect by virtue of paragraph (3), be varied by arrangements made under this regulation.

(5)

In this regulation “relevant arrangements” means any arrangements which were made, or treated as made, for the purposes of regulation 15 of the 2007 General Regulations.

Modification of section 55 of the RTRA 1984: London authorities25.

(1)

Section 55 of the RTRA 198430 (financial provisions relating to income and expenditure from parking places) applies to a London authority which is also an enforcement authority in relation to parking contraventions within paragraph 2 or 3 of Schedule 7 to the TMA 2004 but as if it were modified as follows.

(2)

For subsection (1) substitute—

“(1)

A London authority which is also an enforcement authority (an “LE authority”) must keep—

(a)

an account of their income and expenditure under this Part of this Act in respect of designated parking places,

(b)

an account of their income and expenditure as an enforcement authority in relation to parking contraventions within paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 to the Traffic Management Act 2004 (contraventions in relation to parking places in Greater London), and

(c)

an account of their income and expenditure as an enforcement authority in relation to parking contraventions within paragraph 3 of that Schedule (other parking contraventions in Greater London).

(1A)

An LE authority must, after each financial year, send a copy of each of the accounts kept by them under subsection (1) to the Mayor of London.

(1B)

The copies of the accounts required to be sent under subsection (1A) must be sent as soon as is reasonably possible after the conclusion of the audit of the authority’s accounts for the financial year in question.”.

(3)

In subsection (2)—

(a)

for “the account” substitute “any of the accounts”;

(b)

omit the words “or, in Wales, council fund”.

(4)

In subsection (3)—

(a)

for “local authority” substitute “LE authority”;

(b)

for “the account” substitute “the relevant account”.

(5)

In subsection (3A)—

(a)

for the words from “Transport for London” to “City of London”, substitute “The LE authority”;

(b)

for “their account” substitute “any of their accounts”.

(6)

In subsection (4)—

(a)

in paragraph (a), omit the words “or, in Wales, council fund”;

(b)

in paragraph (b), for “local authority” substitute “LE authority”;

(c)

in paragraph (d), in the words before sub-paragraph (i), for “local authority” substitute, “LE authority”;

(d)

in paragraph (d)(i), for “local authority” substitute “LE authority”;

(e)

in paragraph (d)(ii)—

(i)

omit the words “or road improvement project”;

(ii)

for “local authority’s” substitute “LE authority’s”;

(f)

in paragraph (d)(iii)—

(i)

omit the words “in the case of a London authority,”;

(ii)

for “the authority” substitute “the LE authority”;

(g)

in paragraph (d)(iv), for “local authority’s” substitute “LE authority’s”;

(h)

in paragraph (e), in the words before sub-paragraph (i)—

(i)

omit the words “in the case of a London authority,”;

(ii)

for “the authority” substitute “the LE authority”;

(i)

in paragraph (f), in the words before sub-paragraph (i)—

(i)

omit the words “in the case of a London authority,”;

(ii)

for “any other London authority” substitute “any London authority (other than the LE authority)”;

(iii)

for “other authority” substitute “London authority”;

(iv)

for “the authority” substitute “the LE authority;

(j)

in paragraph (f)(i), for “the account” substitute “any of the accounts”;

(k)

in paragraph (f)(ii), for “that account” substitute “any of those accounts”.

(7)

In subsection (4A)—

(a)

in paragraph (a), for “the local authority” substitute “the LE authority”;

(b)

omit paragraph (b).

(8)

In subsection (10), before the definition of “London authority” insert—

““enforcement authority” means an enforcement authority for the purposes of Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004 (civil enforcement) pursuant to paragraph 1(2) or 2(5) of Schedule 8 to that Act;”.

(9)

After subsection (10) insert—

“(11)

A reference in this section to the income and expenditure of an LE authority as an enforcement authority is to their income and expenditure in connection with their functions under Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004.”.

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In relation to England, section 55 was amended by the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), Schedule 5, paragraph 4(22), Schedule 17, by the Local Government (Finance) Act 1988 (c. 41), Schedule 12, paragraph 42, by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22), Schedule 8, paragraph 46, by the Road Traffic Act 1991, Schedule 7, paragraph 5, Schedule 8, by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), section 282, Schedule 34 and by the TMA 2004, section 95.