The Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (County of Pembrokeshire) Designation Order 2010

Made: 8 December 2010

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales: 14 December 2010

Coming into force: 1 February 2011

Accordingly, the Welsh Ministers make this Order.

Title and commencement

1

The title of this Order is the Civil Enforcement of Parking Contraventions (County of Pembrokeshire) Designation Order 2010 and it comes into force on 1 February 2011.

Designation of civil enforcement area and special enforcement area

2

• (1) The Welsh Ministers designate the area described in paragraph (2) as—

• (a) a civil enforcement area for parking contraventions; and

• (b) a special enforcement area.

• (2) The designated area is the County of Pembrokeshire.

Signed

Ieuan Wyn Jones — Minister for the Economy and Transport, one of the Welsh Ministers — 8 December 2010

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order designates the County of Pembrokeshire 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 Pembrokeshire County Council to enforce parking contraventions within the County of Pembrokeshire 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 section 162 of, and 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.