Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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Question 254: To ask the Minister for Transport and the Marine the legislative basis for the practice by some local authorities and by An Garda Síochána of notifying car parking fines by post rather than by placing a parking ticket on the windscreen of the offending vehicle. [17818/07]

Noel Dempsey (Meath West, Fianna Fail)
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The legislative basis that provides for the use of the alternative modes that the Deputy refers to for issue of a fixed charge notice by members of the Garda Síochána in respect of vehicles that are believed to be illegally parked is set out in Section 103 of the Road Traffic Act 1961 as substituted by section 11 of the Road Traffic Act 2002.

The corresponding provision that is used by traffic wardens that are employed by local authorities to enforce the parking laws is contained in section 3 of the Local Authorities (Traffic Wardens) Act 1975 as substituted by section 12 of the Road Traffic Act 2002.

Subsequent amendments to those section 103 and section 3 provisions referred to above, in relation to the issue of fixed charge notices, are contained in the Road Traffic Act 2004 and the Road Traffic Act 2006.