Parking Places Act 1974 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Administration and Enforcement
15B. Power of entry
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The Superintendent or any person authorised by the Authority or the Superintendent (called in this section an authorised person) may —
Superintendent
“Superintendent” means the Superintendent of Car Parks or a Deputy or an Assistant Superintendent of Car Parks appointed under section 3;
for the purpose of ascertaining whether there is or has been a contravention of any provision of this Act or any rules made under this Act; or
for any other purpose incidental to or in connection with the performance of the functions or duties of the Authority or the Superintendent under this Act,enter any private parking place between the hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. to make any survey or inspection without being liable to any legal proceedings or molestation on account of such entry or any thing done in such private parking place.
A person must not, except with the consent of the owner or occupier of a private parking place, enter the parking place by virtue of the powers conferred by subsection (1) without at least 6 hours’ previous notice being given to the owner or occupier of the private parking place, if any.
private parking place
“private parking place” means any land or premises or part thereof owned or occupied by any person other than the Government and used for the parking or housing of —(a)one or more motor vehicles other than heavy vehicles; (b)one or more heavy vehicles, whether or not in addition to any motor vehicle which is not a heavy vehicle; or(c)one or more bicycles, power-assisted bicycles or personal mobility devices or a combination of such vehicles,but does not include any parking place provided under section 4;
Despite subsection (1), where it is necessary or expedient to make any survey or inspection outside the hours specified in subsection (1), the Superintendent or any authorised person may enter any private parking place by giving at least 6 hours’ previous notice to the owner or occupier of the private parking place.
The Superintendent or an authorised person may do any of the following, without involving any search of any property or individual, for the purposes of a survey or inspection under this section:
photograph or film, or make audio recordings or make sketches of, any part of the premises, or any vehicle or parts of a vehicle or other thing at the premises;
require any person on those premises to produce or grant access to, without charge, any document or information reasonably required for any purpose in subsection (1), which are in the possession or under the control of that person;
inspect and make copies of or take extracts from any such document;
take possession of such a document if, in the opinion of the Superintendent or authorised officer —
the inspection or copying of or extraction from the document cannot reasonably be performed without taking possession;
the document may be interfered with or destroyed unless possession is taken; or
the document may be required as evidence in any proceedings instituted or commenced for any of the purposes of, or in connection with, this Act.
The power to require a person to furnish any document or information under subsection (4)(b) includes the power —
to require the person, or any person who is or was an officer or employee of that person, to provide an explanation of the document or information; (b)if the document or information is not furnished, to require the person to state, to the best of the person’s knowledge and belief, where it is; and
if the information is recorded otherwise than in legible form, to require the information to be made available to the Superintendent or authorised officer in legible form.