The Civil Enforcement Officers (Wearing of Uniforms) (England) Regulations 2007

Statutory Instruments
2007 No. 3485

road traffic, england
The Civil Enforcement Officers (Wearing of Uniforms) (England) Regulations 2007

Made

10th December 2007

Laid before Parliament

14th December 2007

Coming into force

31st March 2008

The Secretary of State for Transport makes these Regulations in exercise of the power conferred by section 76(4) of the Traffic Management Act 2004(1).
Citation and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Enforcement Officers (Wearing of Uniforms) (England) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 31st March 2008.

(2) These Regulations apply only to England.

(3) In these Regulations “the 2004 Act” means the Traffic Management Act 2004.
Specified functions

2.—(1) All functions conferred on civil enforcement officers by or under the enactments specified in paragraph (2) are specified for the purposes of section 76(3)(a) of the 2004 Act.

(2) Those enactments are—

(a)section 78(2)(a) and (b) of the 2004 Act;

(b)section 79 of the 2004 Act; and

(c)section 99 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(2).

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Rosie Winterton

Minister of State,

Department for Transport

10th December 2007

76(1)A local authority may provide for the enforcement of road traffic contraventions for which it is the enforcement authority by individuals to be known as civil enforcement officers.

(2)A civil enforcement officer must be—

(a)an individual employed by the authority, or

(b)where the authority have made arrangements with any person for the purposes of this section, an individual employed by that person to act as a civil enforcement officer.

(3)Civil enforcement officers—

(a)when exercising specified functions must wear such uniform as may be determined by the enforcement authority in accordance with guidelines issued by the appropriate national authority, and

(b)must not exercise any of those functions when not in uniform.

(4)In subsection (3)(a) “specified” means specified by regulations made by the appropriate national authority.

(5)A parking attendant appointed under section 63A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (c. 27) by a local authority that is an enforcement authority—

(a)is a civil enforcement officer in relation to parking contraventions for which that authority is the enforcement authority, and

(b)may be appointed a civil enforcement officer in relation to other road traffic contraventions for which they are the enforcement authority.

SCHEDULE 11

In section 63A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (parking attendants), for subsection (4) (requirement to wear uniform) substitute—E+W

“(4)Parking attendants in an area that is a civil enforcement area for parking contraventions—

(a)when exercising prescribed functions must wear such uniform as may be determined by the enforcement authority in accordance with guidance issued by the appropriate national authority, and

(b)must not exercise any of those functions when not in uniform.

Expressions used in this subsection that are defined for the purposes of Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004 have the same meaning as in that Part.”.