New Clause 15 — Offence of issuing excess parking charges
Protection of Freedoms Bill (Ways and Means)
9:00 pm
Guy Opperman (Hexham, Conservative)
I was retained counsel by the Automobile Association in 2000, in the case of Vine v. London borough of Waltham Forest, so I come to this matter with a degree of experience. Subsection (1) of new clause 15 attempts to create a criminal offence in certain circumstances. Does the hon. Lady agree, however, that those circumstances are already covered by the measures in the Theft Act 1968 relating to obtaining property by deception, or by consumer protection legislation?