Disabled Persons' Parking Badges Act 2013
| Year | 2013 |
Disabled Persons' Parking Badges Act 2013
2013 CHAPTER 4
An Act to amend section 21 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970, and for connected purposes.
[31st January 2013]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1 Form of parking badges
(1) In the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 1970 ("the 1970 Act"), section 21 (badges for display on motor vehicles used by disabled persons) is amended as set out in subsections (2) to (6).
(2) In subsection (1), the words "of a prescribed form" are omitted.
(3) After that subsection there is inserted-
"(1A) A badge issued under this section must be in valid form, which means-
(a) of a form specified or approved by the Secretary of State, in the case of a badge issued by a local authority in England and Wales;
(b) of a prescribed form, in the case of a badge issued by a local authority in Scotland."
(4) In subsection (4B), for "of a form prescribed under this section" there is substituted "in valid form".
(5) In the subsection (4BA) inserted by section 94 of the Traffic Management Act 2004, for "of a form prescribed under this section" there is substituted "in valid form".
(6) In the subsection (4BA) inserted by section 73 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001, for "of a form prescribed under subsection (1) above" there is substituted "in valid form".
(7) In section 117 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (wrongful use of disabled person's badge), in subsection (1)(a), for "of a form prescribed under section 21" there is substituted "in valid fo rm, within the meaning given by section 21(1A)".
(8) Any provision of regulations in force on the commencement of this section that prescribes the form of a badge issued by a local authority in England and Wales continues to have effect (until revoked) as if the reference to specifying a form in subsection (1A) of section 21 of the 1970 Act (inserted by subsection (3) above) included a reference to prescribing a form.
2 Cancellation of parking badges
(1) Section 21 of the 1970 Act is further amended as follows.
(2) After subsection (7A) there is inserted-
"(7AB) A local authority in England and Wales may cancel a badge issued by them under this section if it appears to the authority that the person to whom it was issued no longer holds the badge, either-
(a) because the person notifies the authority that it has been lost or stolen, or
(b) for any other reason.
A cancellation under paragraph (b) above takes effect only when the authority give notice of the cancellation to the person."
(3) In subsection (7B), after "subsection (7A)" there is inserted "or (7AB)".
(4) In subsection (7D), after "which is required to be returned to the issuing authority by virtue of subsection (6) above" there is inserted ", or which is cancelled under subsection (7AB) above,".
3 Use of parking badges that are no longer valid
(1) Section 21 of the 1970 Act is further amended as set out in subsections (2) and (3).
(2) After subsection (4B) there is inserted-
"(4BZA) A person who in England and Wales drives a motor vehicle on a road (within the meaning of the Road Traffic Act 1988) at a time when a badge issued under this section is displayed on the vehicle is guilty of an offence if-
(a) the badge should have been returned to the issuing authority in compliance with regulations under subsection (6) or a notice under subsection...
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