The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (City and County of Cardiff) Designation Order 2010

Made: 19 May 2010

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales: 22 May 2010

Coming into force: 5 July 2010

Accordingly, the Welsh Ministers make this Order.

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (City and County of Cardiff) Designation Order 2010 and shall come into force on 5 July 2010.

Designation of civil enforcement area and special enforcement area

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.

SCHEDULE — Area designated as a civil enforcement area for parking contraventions and a special enforcement area

This Order applies to the whole of the city and county of Cardiff with the exception of—

• (a) the M4 Motorway and its slip roads, including the northern and southern slip roads to Junction 32 and the gyratory carriageway (A4054) around Junction 32;

• (b) the A470, including its slip roads, from the boundary with the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taff at a point approximately 240 metres north of the B4262 Ynys Bridge roundabout to its junction with Pantmawr Road;

• (c) the A48(M) and A48 from the boundary with the city of Newport at a point approximately 800 metres east of the St Mellons junction over-bridge to the Radyr Place over-bridge 470 metres west of Gabalfa Interchange, including all slip roads and the circulatory carriageways at Pentwyn Link interchange (A4232) and Llanedeyrn interchange (A4161);

• (d) the A4232 from Junction 30 of the M4, including its circulatory carriageway, to its junction with the A48;

• (e) the A4161 from its junction with the A48 Pentwyn interchange to its junction with the A4232, including its slip roads to the Newport Road roundabout;

• (f) the A4232 from its junction with the A4161 to its junction with the Lamby Way/ Rover Way roundabout;

• (g) the A4232, including its slip roads, from Junction 33 of the M4 (including its circulatory carriageway) to its junction with the A4234, including the Queens Gate roundabout circulatory carriageway and the link to the roundabout at the County Hall Spur;

• (h) the A4234 from its junction with Adam Street to its junction with the County Hall roundabout, including the intermediate roundabout junction with the A4232 and the County Hall Spur; and

• (i) the A4055 from, and including, the circulatory carriageway of the A4232 Ferry Road interchange southwards and westwards for a distance of approximately 575 metres to the boundary with the county borough of the Vale of Glamorgan.

Signed

Ieuan Wyn Jones — Minister for the Economy and Transport, one of the Welsh Ministers — 19 May 2010

Explanatory note

(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 the County Council of the City and County of Cardiff 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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2004 c. 18.

[^f00002]: 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.