Enforcement of traffic and parking orders

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Practice notes

Enforcement of traffic and parking orders

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Practice notes
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The Enforcement of road traffic regulation orders is more complex than for some other offences because the initial evidence that an offence has taken place is often merely a report that a particular motor vehicle was, for example, speeding, driving the wrong way along a one-way road, or parked in the wrong place or parked for too long. The vehicle never commits an offence; its driver commits the offence and the driver is often hard to identify, especially for parking offences, because they are often not in the vehicle.

Road traffic—criminal offences

Normal criminal law procedures can be used if the driver who is alleged to have committed an offence can be identified by a witness. In other cases, where the identity of the driver is not known, secondary offences have been created, as in section 172 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (RTA 1988), where it is an offence for the keeper of a vehicle not to reveal the identity of the driver of that vehicle as at the time of an alleged traffic

Brendon Lee
Brendon Lee

HCR Hewitsons

Brendon works in the Planning and Environmental Team at Hewitsons LLP. He deals with a range of contentious and non-contentious planning and environmental matters encompassing planning control and heritage assets, highways and related public access issues, and compulsory acquisition orders. Brendon is a member of the Compulsory Purchase Association, UK Environmental Law Association, and the Institute of Public Rights of Way.

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What does Enforcement mean?

The action of compelling a party to comply with a judgment where it has not been complied with voluntarily and the time ordered for compliance has expired.

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