Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Permitted Parking Area and Special Parking Area) (County of Buckinghamshire) (High Wycombe Town Centre) (Amendment) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 5th July 1999.

Preliminary

2. The Road Traffic (Permitted Parking Area and Special Parking Area) (County of Buckinghamshire) (High Wycombe Town Centre) Order 1997(3) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this Order.

Amendment of paragraph 5 of Schedule 3

3. For paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 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."

Amendment of paragraph 8 of Schedule 3

4.-(1) Paragraph 8 of Schedule 3 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In the definition of "designated parking place" in the substituted section 82(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1991 for the words "section 32(1)(a) or (b)" there shall be substituted "section 32(1)(b)".

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Road Traffic (Permitted Parking Area and Special Parking Area) (County of Buckinghamshire) (High Wycombe Town Centre) Order 1997 ("the principal Order") which designated a permitted parking area and a special parking area in the central area of High Wycombe.

Paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 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 are 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 High Wycombe through a joint committee of local authorities, other than London authorities. Article 4 makes a drafting amendment to the modification to section 82 of the 1991 Act.