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> 
> I don't know that rule. AFAIK, it is quite legal for an able bodied 
> driver to drive his otherwise unoccupied car into a disabled bay and 
> display a BB belonging to someone else.
> 
> All he needs to say is that he is there to pick up the BB holder. He can 
> even get out and go the "fetch" them.
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Is it legal? I always thought that the person who the BB is for had to 
alight from the vehicle where it was parked .

PWB wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> I don't know that rule. AFAIK, it is quite legal for an able bodied 
>> driver to drive his otherwise unoccupied car into a disabled bay and 
>> display a BB belonging to someone else.
>>
>> All he needs to say is that he is there to pick up the BB holder. He 
>> can even get out and go the "fetch" them.
> <Snip>
> 
> Is it legal? I always thought that the person who the BB is for had to 
> alight from the vehicle where it was parked .

Entirely legal. The BB holder should be in the vehicle either when it 
arrives or when it leaves, or both. So just being "caught" arriving 
without them OR leaving without them isn't sufficient to prosecute.

--
Sue

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:53:34 GMT, Palindrome  wrote:
>PWB wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> I don't know that rule. AFAIK, it is quite legal for an able bodied 
>>> driver to drive his otherwise unoccupied car into a disabled bay and 
>>> display a BB belonging to someone else.
>>>
>>> All he needs to say is that he is there to pick up the BB holder. He 
>>> can even get out and go the "fetch" them.
>> <Snip>
>> 
>> Is it legal? I always thought that the person who the BB is for had to 
>> alight from the vehicle where it was parked .
>
>Entirely legal. The BB holder should be in the vehicle either when it 
>arrives or when it leaves, or both. So just being "caught" arriving 
>without them OR leaving without them isn't sufficient to prosecute.

I'm glad to have that confirmed.

My husband feels very nervous when he uses my BB to collect me from the
city centre where he has previously dropped me off.

The purpose of the badge is to enable the holder by providing them the 
shortest possible distance between there destination and the point of pick 
up.

They do not have to be the driver, the important point is that the parking 
is for the convenience of the badge holder and not the driver.

Of course there are grey areas where an abuser will make any kind of excuse 
which is what it makes it so much worse for genuine people.


-- 
þT

L'autisme c'est moi

"Space folds, and folded space bends, and bent folded space contracts and
expands unevenly in every way unconcievable except to someone who does not
believe in the laws of mathematics"


<x{yz}enophil44@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:53:34 GMT, Palindrome  wrote:
>>PWB wrote:
> I'm glad to have that confirmed.
>
> My husband feels very nervous when he uses my BB to collect me from the
> city centre where he has previously dropped me off.