Disabled Persons' Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009, Came into force 1st October 2009

I have encluded in this page copies of the Disabled Persons' Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009. there are 2 document in this page: Disabled Persons' Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009 asp 3 and Disabled Persons' Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009 asp 3 Legislation Annotations: Sample format. The orginal of these to documents are in PDF format, but since we have had a few comment about some screen readers not being able to read these even though Adobe Reader 9 has an inbuild screen reader we have copied this into two other format`s which we hope will suit better, these are Microsoft Word and Notepad.

The Non-Executive Bills Unit’s Explanatory Notes (see General Note: Explanatory Notes) say: " 
The Act will lead to all disabled street parking places becoming enforceable. The general approach of the Act is to impose a duty on local authorities, in particular circumstances, to exercise its power to make a particular kind of order under either section 45 (street parking places) or section 35 (off-street parking places) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (the 1984 Act). The Act does not amend the 1984 Act itself in any way. These kinds of orders which the local authorities are to be required to make are already open to them under the 1984 Act. The powers under the 1984 Act are not affected; rather, this Act separately imposes a duty to exercise those powers in particular circumstances. Once the duty under this Act is triggered, the provision as to procedure and enforcement etc. is that applicable under the 1984 Act.”

The above was taken from Disabled Persons' Parking Places (Scotland) Act 2009 asp 3 Legislation Annotations: Sample