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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:

“How local councils pick and manage parking wardens”

A local authority can choose someone to be a parking warden. If you were already a parking warden when this rule started, you’re still considered to be one.

As a parking warden, you can only do your job on roads in the area of the local authority that picked you. Your powers and duties come from this law and other laws.

The local authority that chose you is responsible for what you do as a parking warden. This is true even if you’re not actually an employee of the local authority. If anyone else gives you directions or controls what you do as a parking warden, it’s treated as if the local authority did it.

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Part 9 Enforcement 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.

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