Welsh Statutory Instruments
ROAD TRAFFIC, WALES
Made
15 February 2011
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales
18 February 2011
Coming into force
1 April 2011
This Order is made in exercise of the powers conferred on the National Assembly for Wales by paragraph 8(1) of Schedule 8 and paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 10 to the Traffic Management Act 2004(1) and now vested in the Welsh Ministers(2).
Powys County Council has applied to the Welsh Ministers for an order to be made under these powers with respect to part of its area.
The Welsh Ministers have consulted the chief officer of Dyfed Powys Police in accordance with the requirements of paragraphs 8(3) of Schedule 8 and 3(4) of Schedule 10 to the Traffic Management Act 2004.
Accordingly, the Welsh Ministers make this Order.
1. This Order is called the Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (County of Powys) Designation Order 2011 and comes into force on 1 April 2011.
2. The Welsh Ministers designate the area described in the Schedule as—
(a)a civil enforcement area for parking contraventions; and
(b)a special enforcement area.
Ieuan Wyn Jones
Minister for the Economy and Transport, one of the Welsh Ministers
15 February 2011
Article 2
This Order applies to the whole of the County of Powys with the exception of the length of road constructed within the Sennybridge Training Area, Sennybridge in the County of Powys which runs from the junction of the roads C45 and L167 at a point approximately 0.6 kilometres east of Tirabad and crosses Mynydd Bwlch-y-Groes in a general south westerly direction to its junction with the classified road C49 at Church Hill at a point approximately 1.85 kilometres north west of Llywel, a distance of approximately 11.7 kilometres in total.
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order designates the area described in the Schedule as a civil enforcement area and a special enforcement area for the purposes of Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004. The practical effect of the Order is to enable Powys County Council to enforce parking contraventions within the area described in the Schedule to the Order through a civil law regime, as opposed to enforcement by police or traffic wardens in a criminal law context.
These powers are exercisable by the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006, pursuant to which the Welsh Ministers are the 'appropriate national authority' as regards Wales under section 92(1) of the Traffic Management Act 2004.