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Statutory Instruments
ROAD TRAFFIC
Made
13th June 1999
Laid before Parliament
14th June 1999
Coming into force
5th July 1999
Whereas Hertfordshire County Council has applied to the Secretary of State for an order to be made under paragraphs 1(1) and 2(1) of Schedule 3 to the Road Traffic Act 1991(1) with respect to part of their area and the Secretary of State has consulted the Chief Constable of Hertfordshire in accordance with the requirements of paragraphs 1(3) and 2(3) of that Schedule and the Council on Tribunals in accordance with the requirements of section 8 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992(2);
NOW, the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraphs 1(1), 2(1) and 3(3) of Schedule 3 to the Road Traffic Act 1991 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:-�
1. This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Permitted Parking Area and Special Parking Area) (County of Hertfordshire) (Borough of Watford) (Amendment) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 5th July 1999.
2. The Road Traffic (Permitted Parking Area and Special Parking Area) (County of Hertfordshire) (Borough of Watford) Order 1997(3) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.
3. For paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 there shall be substituted-�
"5.-(1) Section 73 shall be modified as follows-�
(2) For subsections (1) to (3) there shall be substituted-�
"(1) The functions conferred on the parking authority by this section shall be discharged by it through a joint committee (the "Joint Committee") set up in pursuance of arrangements entered into by it under section 101(5) of the Local Government Act 1972(4) with two or more other local authorities.
(2) In subsection (1) "local authorities" means authorities which are county or district councils in England or county or county borough councils in Wales in whose areas permitted parking areas or special parking areas have been designated under Schedule 3 to this Act.
(3) The parking authority shall-�
(a)with the consent of the Lord Chancellor appoint persons to act as parking adjudicators for the purposes of this Act in relation to the special parking area and the permitted parking area;
(b)provide or secure the provision of accommodation and administrative staff for parking adjudicators so appointed; and
(c)determine the places at which such parking adjudicators are to sit."
(3) In subsection (5) for the words "the London authorities" there shall be substituted "the parking authority".
(4) Subsections (8) to (10) shall be omitted."
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Glenda Jackson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
13th June 1999
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Road Traffic (Permitted Parking Area and Special Parking Area) (County of Hertfordshire) (Borough of Watford) Order 1997 ("the principal Order") which designated a permitted parking area and a special parking area in the Borough of Watford, with the exception of certain lengths of trunk road.
Paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the principal Order modified section 73 of the Road Traffic Act 1991 (parking adjudicators) in its application to the designated areas so that adjudicators appointed by the Joint Committee of London authorities were authorised to act in relation to those areas. Article 3 of this Order amends the modifications of section 73 in the principal Order to provide for the appointment of adjudicators to act in Watford through a joint committee of local authorities, other than London authorities.
1991 c. 40. Schedule 3 was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (Amendment of Schedule 3) (England and Wales) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/500).
S.I. 1997/2304.
