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Road Traffic (Wardens) Regulations 1986
Reprinted as at 16 November 2001
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Road Traffic (Wardens) Regulations 1986
CONTENTS
1.Citation1
1A.Interpretation1
2.Transport wardens1
3.Crossing attendants2
4.Parking wardens3
5.Warden for the inspection of motor vehicles3
Schedule5
Notes
Compilation table7
Reprinted under the Reprints Act 1984 as at 16 November 2001
Road Traffic Act 1974
Road Traffic (Wardens) Regulations 1986
These regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Wardens) Regulations 1986 1.
In these regulations —
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[Regulation 1A inserted in Gazette 31 Jan 1997 p. 687.]
(1)For the purposes referred to in section 7(3), a warden appointed under section 7(2) as a transport warden has the powers conferred on a member of the Police Force by the provisions of —
(a)sections 53 and 58;
(b)regulation 272 of the Road Traffic Code 2000;
(c)the Road Traffic (Licensing) Regulations 1975; and
(d)the Road Traffic (Vehicle Standards) Regulations 1977.
(2)Subregulation (1) does not limit any power conferred by the Act on a warden appointed under section 7(2).
(3)For the purposes referred to in section 7(3), a reference to a member of the Police Force in a provision referred to in subregulation (1) shall be read as including a reference to a transport warden.
(4)The certificate of appointment of a transport warden shall be in the form of Form 1.
[Regulation 2 inserted in Gazette 31 Jan 1997 p. 687; amended in Gazette 1 Dec 2000 p. 6760.]
(1)The certificate of appointment of a person as a warden appointed under section 7(1) to perform duties relating to the controlling of vehicles and pedestrians at children’s crossings and pedestrian crossings shall be in the form of Form 2 and any warden so appointed has, for the purposes referred to in section 7(3), the powers to stop vehicles from proceeding through a children’s crossing or a pedestrian crossing, to require vehicles to remain stationary and to prohibit persons from walking across or onto a children’s crossing or a pedestrian crossing, and any warden so appointed may give such signals or directions to drivers of those vehicles and to those other persons as are necessary for that purpose.
(1a)Subregulation (1) does not limit any power conferred by the Act on a warden appointed under section 7(1).
(2)A warden appointed to perform duties relating to the controlling of vehicles pedestrians at children’s crossings and pedestrian crossings shall at all times when he or she is performing those duties, wear a uniform approved by the Commissioner of Police.
[Regulation 3 amended in Gazette 31 Jan 1992 p. 516; 31 Jan 1997 p. 688.]
(1)The certificate of appointment of a person as a warden appointed under section 7(1) to perform duties relating to and standing of vehicles shall be in the form of Form 3, and any warden so appointed has, for the purposes referred to in section 7(3), such of the powers of a member of the Police Force as are necessary for him to enforce the provisions of the Act and the Road Traffic Code 2000, relating to the parking and standing of vehicles, including the powers of demanding the name and address of the driver or person in charge of any vehicle and the powers of requiring the owner of a vehicle to disclose the identity of the driver of the vehicle at any relevant time.
(2)Subregulation (1) does not limit any power conferred by the Act on a warden appointed under section 7(1).
(3)For the purposes referred to in section 7(3), a reference to a member of the Police Force in a provision referred to in subregulation (1) shall be read as including a reference to a warden appointed under section 7(1) to perform the duties referred to in that subregulation.
[Regulation 4 amended in Gazette 31 Jan 1997 p. 688; 1 Dec 2000 p. 6760.]
5.Warden for the inspection of motor vehicles
(1)Where a person has been appointed a warden under section 7(2) to perform duties relating to the inspection of motor vehicles —
(a)the certificate of appointment of the person as such a warden shall be in the form of Form 4; and
(b)any warden so appointed has, for the purposes referred to in section 7(3), the powers —
(i)to examine any vehicle at a place provided for the examination of vehicles and may for that purpose do all such things as are necessary for him to ascertain whether any such vehicle complies with the provisions of the Road Traffic (Vehicle Standards) Regulations 1977;
(ii)conferred on a member of the Police Force by the provisions of regulations 107 and 109 of the Road Traffic (Vehicle Standards) Regulations 1977; and
(iii)conferred on a member of the Police Force by the provisions of regulations 25(2) and 26C(5) of the Road Traffic (Licensing) Regulations 1975.
(2)Subregulation (1) does not limit any power conferred by the Act on a warden appointed under section 7(2).
(3)For the purposes referred to in section 7(3), a reference to a member of the Police Force in a provision referred to in subregulation (1)(b)(ii) or (iii) shall be read as including a reference to a warden appointed under section 7(2) to perform the duties referred to in that subregulation.
[Regulation 5 amended in Gazette 28 Sep 1990 p. 5073; 31 Jan 1997 p. 688‑9.]
[6.Repealed in Gazette 31 Jan 1997 p. 689.]
