The Act Charges
428.Section 80 details how charges imposed through a workplace parking licensing scheme should be paid. Section 80(1)(a) requires that the charge is paid by the occupier of the premises to which the charge relates. It is not chargeable directly on individual employees, and it is a matter for the occupier of premises if (and how) they recover the charge from employees or any other person. Section 80(1)(b) gives the Scottish Ministers the power to specify in regulations persons other than the occupier who are in specified circumstances to be liable for those charges. This is to enable charges to be levied against persons who provide workplace parking at premises, but who do not occupy those premises. Only persons who provide workplace parking may be specified in these regulations.
429.Section 80(2) gives an indication of the flexibility that local authorities are to have in how they impose the charges. This includes being able to vary the charge by different days or times of day; different parts of the licensing area; different persons who would be liable; different descriptions of premises and different classes of motor vehicles.
430.Section 80(3) requires a local authority when they set the charge to have regard to what they are going to use funds raised for. Section 81 sets out how local authorities must use funds raised.