The Draft Private Parking Code of Practice (PAS 232) now out for Consultation

bargepole

Ralph-y said:

any one an idea of a timetable?

Ralph

The next version of the PAS should be published around mid-December.

Ralph-y

This was on the BSI web site

3. Public Comments

Public Comments start date:

27/08/2020

Public Comments end date:

12/10/2020

4. Comment Resolution

Comment Resolution start date:

11/09/2020

5. Approval

Approval start date:

09/10/2020

6. Publication

Publication start date:

17/12/2020

The dates do not seem to make sense, publication is as you have just said ... but

Approval and Comment Resolution date are before  the end of Public Comments

Ralph

Umkomaas

Approval and Comment Resolution date are before  the end of Public Comments 

Both 'start' dates. I guess just getting on with things as comments began rolling in. 

beamerguy

That works out well given covid at the moment.  By the time it will take the parking companies and legals to recover, probably into 2021 now, the new code will be working.
In the meantime, we plonder on and have to accept that the parking companies are so desperate for money, that they get up to all sorts of tricks including reviving old tickets.

Snakes_Belly

I think that the MP's have had too many letters from constituents (as nine times out of ten they were probably being scammed. Hat tip to Sir Dance.)  I cannot see them bowing down to pressure from the PPC's now.

bargepole

These dates are all somewhat elastic. The public consultation was due to start in early August, but didn't come out until the beginning of September.

The committee responsible for drafting the PAS will now have to have more meetings to plough through the c.4,500 responses, and no doubt weed out the ridiculous and utterly desperate spam that some of the knuckle-dragging ex-clampers have posted in there.

There will then be a further review by a select group of stakeholders, representing consumers and the parking industry, before the final version is published, so I'd expect this to go well into next year. Once the final version is set in stone, the MHCLG will need to appoint a regulatory body to enforce the code, and decide who runs the Single Appeals Service.

So still a way to go yet.

Castle

bargepole said:

There will then be a further review by a select group of stakeholders, representing consumers and the parking industry, before the final version is published, so I'd expect this to go well into next year. Once the final version is set in stone, the MHCLG will need to appoint a regulatory body to enforce the code, and decide who runs the Single Appeals Service.

So still a way to go yet.

And it still has to be approved by both Houses of Parliament.

Snakes_Belly

"And it still has to be approved by both Houses of Parliament."

The original PMB did get cross party support.  I don't think that there was one MP that voted against the bill.

bargepole

I don't think that's right that it has to be approved by both Houses. The original Parking (Code of Practice) Act 2019 was primary legislation, and had to go through the three-stage process in both houses, before gaining Royal Assent.

One of the clauses in that Act says that the Secretary of State shall produce the Code, so this will just be a rubber stamp exercise, similar to the passing of a Statutory Instrument.

Coupon-mad

Yes that's my take on it.  It is down to Ministers and the SoS.