{"longTitle":"A Bill to make provision relating to the licensing of charging, publicly-available, privately-owned car parks; to require local authorities to introduce a licensing system for such car parks; to enable local authorities to recover the costs of such a licensing scheme from car park operators; and for connected purposes.","summary":"<p>The Bill would require local authorities in England to introduce a licensing scheme for charging, publicly-available, privately-owned car parks. </p><p>The requirements on local authorities would be set out in regulations made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument, and would include:</p><ul><li>the criteria which private parking operators must satisfy to acquire a licence</li><li>the maximum level of fixed penalty charges which could be imposed under the licensing scheme</li><li>provision for the costs incurred by each local authority in setting up and administering the licensing process to be recovered by a levy on private parking operators operating within that local authority area</li><li>provision for local authorities to permit exemptions from the licensing scheme</li><li>details of the penalties which should apply to any non-licensed private parking operator.</li></ul>","sponsors":[{"member":{"memberId":3960,"name":"Henry Smith","party":"Conservative","partyColour":"0063ba","house":"Commons","memberPhoto":"https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/3960/Thumbnail","memberPage":"https://members.parliament.uk/member/3960/contact","memberFrom":"Crawley"},"organisation":null,"sortOrder":1}],"promoters":[],"petitioningPeriod":null,"petitionInformation":null,"agent":null,"billId":801,"shortTitle":"Consumer Protection (Private Car Parks) Bill","formerShortTitle":null,"currentHouse":"Commons","originatingHouse":"Commons","lastUpdate":"2012-05-02T09:42:19","billWithdrawn":null,"isDefeated":false,"billTypeId":5,"introducedSessionId":24,"includedSessionIds":[24],"isAct":false,"currentStage":{"id":3910,"stageId":7,"sessionId":24,"description":"2nd reading","abbreviation":"2R","house":"Commons","stageSittings":[{"id":3659,"stageId":7,"billStageId":3910,"billId":801,"date":"2011-05-13T00:00:00"}],"sortOrder":2}}