New Zealand Legislation: Acts

7 Appointment of parking wardens

• (1) Any local authority may appoint any person to hold the office of parking warden.

  (2) Every person who holds the office of parking warden at the commencement of this section is hereby deemed to have been appointed under the authority of subsection (1) of this section.

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

  (4) Every local authority that appoints any person under this section shall be liable for the actions of that person as a parking warden in all respects as if that person were an officer or employee of the local authority (whether or not that is the case) and as if 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.

  (5) [Repealed]

  Subsection (3) of the original section 7, which was in Part 2, was repealed, as from 1 July 1966, by section 4(1) Transport Amendment Act (No 2) 1965 (1965 No 128).

  Subsection (4) of the original section 7, which was in Part 2, was amended, as from 29 October 1965, by section 4(2) Transport Amendment Act (No 2) 1965 (1965 No 128), by omitting the words “an agricultural tractor”, and substituting the words “a motor vehicle”.

  Subsection (4A) of the original section 7, which was in Part 2, was inserted, as from by 24 October 1969, by section 6 Transport Amendment Act (No 2) 1969 (1969 No 137).

  Subsection (4B) of the original section 7, which was in Part 2, was inserted, as from 2 December 1983, by section 22 Transport Amendment Act (No 3) 1983 (1983 No 35).

  Subsection (4C) of the original section 7, which was in Part 2, was inserted, as from 3 April 1985, by section 2(2) Transport Amendment Act (No 2) 1985 (1985 No 76)

  Section 7, which was in Part 2, was repealed, as from 30 April 1986, by section 58(1) Transport (Vehicle and Driver Registration and Licensing) Act 1986 (1986 No 6).

  A new section 7 was inserted, as from 1 August 1987, by section 3 Transport Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 96).

  Subsection (3) was amended, as from 1 July 2003, by section 262 Local Government Act 2002 (2002 No 84) by inserting the words “or region” after the word “district”. See sections 273 to 314 of that Act as to the savings and transitional provisions.

  Subsection (5) was repealed, as from 1 November 1987, by section 6(2)(a) Transport Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 96).