Road Traffic Act, 1933

Attendants at parking places.

151.—(1) The Commissioner may, with the consent of the Minister and after consultation with the local authority concerned, make, in respect of any specified area in which parking places are for the time being appointed by bye-laws made under this part of this Act, bye-laws for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say:—

(a) providing for the licensing by the Commissioner of persons to act as motor car attendants in parking places;

(b) providing for the issuing of official badges by the Commissioner to licensed motor car attendants and the wearing of such badges by such attendants;

(c) prescribing the duties of licensed motor car attendants;

(d) prescribing the fees (if any) to be paid by licensed motor car attendants for licences granted and for badges issued to them under the bye-laws;

(e) authorising licensed motor car attendants to charge fees in relation to mechanically propelled vehicles remaining stationary in parking places, prescribing the amounts of such fees, and providing for the collection and recovery of such fees by such attendants;

(f) prohibiting any person who is not a licensed motor car attendant from acting or holding himself out as ready to act as a motor car attendant in any parking place;

(g) prohibiting persons from interfering with, obstructing, or molesting a licensed motor car attendant in the performance of his duties as such attendant.

(2) In this Part of this Act the expression “licensed motor car attendant” means a person duly licensed under bye-laws made under this section to act as motor car attendant in parking places.

(3) A licensed motor car attendant shall not be deemed to be the person having charge within the meaning of this Act of the mechanically propelled vehicles in the parking place at which he is the licensed motor car attendant.

(4) Any person who does any act (whether of commission or omission) which is a contravention of bye-laws made under this section and for the time being in force shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall on summary conviction thereof be liable to a fine not exceeding two pounds.