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

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Explanatory note

SCHEDULE 1Specified requirements for approved devices

Regulation 4

1.

The device must include a camera which is—

(a)

securely mounted on a vehicle, a building, a post or other structure,

(b)

mounted in such a position that vehicles in relation to which relevant road traffic contraventions are being committed can be surveyed by it,

(c)

connected by secure data links to a recording system, and

(d)

capable of producing in one or more pictures, a legible image or images of the vehicle in relation to which a relevant road traffic contravention was committed which show its registration mark and enough of its location to show the circumstances of the contravention.

2.

The device must include a recording system in which—

(a)

recordings are made automatically of the output from the camera or cameras surveying the vehicle and the place where a contravention is occurring,

(b)

there is used a secure and reliable recording method that records at a minimum rate of 5 frames per second,

(c)

each frame of all captured images is timed (in hours, minutes and seconds), dated and sequentially numbered automatically by means of a visual counter, and

(d)

where the device does not occupy a fixed location, it records the location from which it is being operated.

3.

The device and visual counter must—

(a)

be synchronised with a suitably independent national standard clock; and

(b)

be accurate within plus or minus 10 seconds over a 14-day period and re-synchronised to the suitably independent national standard clock at least once during that period.

4.

Where the device includes a facility to print a still image, that image when printed must be endorsed with the time and date when the frame was captured and its unique number.

5.

Where the device can record spoken words or other audio data simultaneously with visual images, the device must include a means of verifying that, in any recording produced by it, the sound track is correctly synchronised with the visual image.