A Bill to make provision relating to the licensing of charging, publicly-available, privately-owned car parks; to require local authorities to introduce a licensing system for such car parks; to enable local authorities to recover the costs of such a licensing scheme from car park operators; and for connected purposes.
The Bill would require local authorities in England to introduce a licensing scheme for charging, publicly-available, privately-owned car parks. The requirements on local authorities would be set out in regulations made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument, and would include:the criteria which private parking operators must satisfy to acquire a licencethe maximum level of fixed penalty charges which could be imposed under the licensing schemeprovision for the costs incurred by each local authority in setting up and administering the licensing process to be recovered by a levy on private parking operators operating within that local authority areaprovision for local authorities to permit exemptions from the licensing schemedetails of the penalties which should apply to any non-licensed private parking operator.
House of Commons
2 May 2012
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This Bill would require local authorities in England to create a licensing system for private car parks that charge customers. It would set out, by regulations from the Secretary of State, the licence criteria, the maximum penalties, and how authorities can recover the scheme’s costs from operators, with possible exemptions and penalties for unlicensed operators.
The bill is at the second reading stage in the House of Commons. It originated in the Commons, with first reading in 2010 and second reading in 2011.
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