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Land Transport Act 1998

Enforcement of responsibilities - Enforcement powers for offences involving certain vehicles

128D: Appointment of parking wardens

You could also call this:

"Who can be a parking warden and what they can do"

A local authority can choose a person to be a parking warden. If someone is already a parking warden when this law starts, they are treated as if they were chosen by the local authority. You can only work as a parking warden on roads in the area where the local authority that chose you is in charge.

When a local authority chooses a parking warden, they are responsible for what that person does as a parking warden. It's like the parking warden is an employee of the local authority, even if they're not. An airport operator, as defined in Part 7 of the Civil Aviation Act 2023, can also choose a person to be a parking warden.

As a parking warden for an airport operator, you can only work on the roads in the airport, and the airport operator is responsible for what you do as a parking warden.

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Part 9Enforcement of responsibilities
Enforcement powers for offences involving certain vehicles

128DAppointment of parking wardens

  1. A local authority may appoint a person to hold the office of parking warden.

  2. A person who holds the office of parking warden at the commencement of this section is to be treated as having been appointed under subsection (1).

  3. A parking warden may perform the functions and duties, and exercise the powers, of a parking warden that are conferred or imposed by or under this or any other Act only on a road within the district or region of the local authority that appointed the parking warden.

  4. A local authority that appoints a person under subsection (1) is liable for the actions of that person as a parking warden in all respects as if—

  5. that person were an officer or employee of the local authority (whether or not that is the case); and
    1. any directions given or control exercised by any other person over the parking warden in that capacity were directions given or control exercised by the local authority.

      1. An airport operator (as defined for the purpose of Part 7 of the Civil Aviation Act 2023) may appoint a person to hold the office of parking warden, and—

      2. subsection (3) applies as if the reference to the district or region of the local authority were a reference to the airport operated by the airport operator; and
        1. subsection (4) applies as if each reference to a local authority were a reference to the airport operator.

          Notes
          • Section 128D: inserted, on , by section 71 of the Land Transport (Road Safety and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2011 (2011 No 13).
          • Section 128D(5): inserted, on , by section 486 of the Civil Aviation Act 2023 (2023 No 10).