Division 3A Phone parking schemes

111A   Phone parking schemes

(1)  A parking authority may, in accordance with Authority guidelines, establish and operate a phone parking scheme for the whole or any part of any road within its area of operations on which is operating a metered parking scheme, a ticket parking scheme or a coupon parking scheme.

(2)  For the purposes of any such phone parking scheme, a parking authority:

(a)  may, in accordance with Authority guidelines:

(i)  set aside also as a phone parking area, the whole or any part of a metered parking area, a ticket parking area or a coupon parking area, that is within its area of operations, and

(ii)  set aside also as a phone parking space, any metered parking space, ticket parking space or coupon parking space, and

(b)  may fix the fees for the parking of a vehicle in any pay parking area, and

(c)  may adopt such schemes for payment of such fees by mobile phone as are approved from time to time by the Authority.

(3)  In the case of a council, the fees for phone parking areas are to be fixed by resolution of the council.

(4)  In the case of a declared organisation, the fees for phone parking areas are to be fixed in accordance with pricing principles set out in Authority guidelines.

(5)  Different fees may be fixed for different phone parking areas and for different days and different times of day.

Note. Rules 207–8 and 207–9 of the Road Rules 2008 make provision for parking in phone parking areas and spaces. Clause 3 (1) defines a phone parking area and phone parking space to have the same meanings as in rules 207–8 and 207–9, respectively.

111B   Display of information relating to phone parking

The following information must be displayed clearly on phone parking signs for a phone parking area, or on a parking meter or a parking ticket machine for a parking space or area that is also designated as a phone parking space or phone parking area:

(a)  a location number and phone number for the phone parking scheme,

(b)  such other information as may be set out in the Authority guidelines for the purposes of this clause.

111C   Temporary closure of phone parking areas and spaces

(1)  A parking authority may, if it decides that the use of a phone parking area or phone parking space should be temporarily discontinued, close the area or the space.

(2)  A phone parking area or phone parking space is closed for the purposes of subclause (1) if a sign displaying words to the effect that the area or space is temporarily closed is erected in, or in close proximity to, the area or space.

Note. A driver who parks in a space or area that is temporarily closed under this clause may commit an offence under rule 207–7 of the Road Rules 2008.

111D   Duration of parking in phone parking areas and spaces

A phone parking period takes effect on the date and at the time the parking period is initiated by mobile phone in accordance with the protocols of the provider of the phone payment scheme and expires when the session is ended in accordance with those protocols.