Part 5: Road traffic Section 90: Charges for removal, storage and disposal of vehicles
Police, strategic highways companies, Secretary of State, local authorities and (within the Greater London area) Transport for London often remove, store and dispose of vehicles. This takes place where, for example, a vehicle is abandoned, parked in an obstructive manner or damaged following a road traffic collision.
	This section clarifies and returns to a statutory footing the legal basis for the police to charge for vehicle recovery, storage and disposal of vehicles removed under section 99 or section 101 of the 1984 Act, from within an area designated a civil enforcement area (as defined in Schedule 8 to the Traffic Management Act 2004) for parking contraventions. Section 74 of and Schedule 8 to the Traffic Management Act 2004 establish (and enable the establishment of) geographical areas in which there will be civil enforcement for one or more classes of contravention that are subject to civil enforcement. These are referred to as "civil enforcement areas".
	The section does this by enabling removals from within and outside a civil enforcement area under new section 102(2). Subsection (2) therefore amends section 102 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 so that an ‘appropriate authority’ (as defined by section 102(8) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984), which includes the police, local authority, Secretary of State and Strategic Highways Company, can charge for section 99 and section 101 removal, storage and disposal of vehicles from both within and outside a civil enforcement area.
	Subsection (3) provides that local authorities can continue to charge for removal of vehicles from within a civil enforcement area as an enforcement authority under Schedule 9 to the Traffic Management Act 2004.