Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 (repealed)

Traffic regulation outside Greater London

Traffic regulation orders outside Greater London.

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• (1) Subject to sections 84A, 84B and 84C of this Act, the authority hereinafter specified may make an order (in this section and section 5 of this Act referred to as a " traffic regulation order ") as respects any road outside Greater London where it appears to the authority making the order that it is expedient so to do—

• (a) for avoiding danger to persons or other traffic using the road or any other road or for preventing the likelihood of any such danger arising, or

• (b) for preventing damage to the road or to any building on or near the road, or

• (c) for facilitating the passage on the road or any other road of any class of traffic (including foot passengers) or of vehicles, or

• (d) for preventing the use of the road by vehicular traffic of a kind which, or the use thereof by such traffic in a manner which, is unsuitable having regard to the existing character of the road or adjoining property, or

• (e) without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (d) above, for preserving the character of the road in a case where it is specially suitable for use by persons on horseback or on foot, or

• (f) for preserving or improving the amenities of the area through which the road runs.

• (2) Subject to section 82 of this Act, the authority having power to make traffic regulation orders—

• (a) as respects roads not being trunk roads, shall be the local authority, that is to say, in England or Wales, the council of a county borough ; as respects any non-county borough or urban district having a population of over 20,000 according to the last census for the time being, the council of the borough or urban district; and as respects any other area the council of the county; and in Scotland a county council or a town council;

• (b) as respects trunk roads, shall be the appropriate Minister;

and the appropriate Minister, on application in that behalf being made to him by the governing body of a university in the receipt of a grant from public moneys, and after holding, if he thinks fit, a public inquiry, shall have power to make a traffic regulation order as respects a road not being a trunk road.

• (3) Subject to subsections (3A) and (4) below, the provision which may be made by a traffic regulation order shall be any provision prohibiting, restricting or regulating the use of a road or any part of the width thereof by vehicular traffic or by such traffic of any class specified in the order, either generally or subject to exceptions so specified, and either at all times or at times, on days or during periods so specified, and, without prejudice to the generality of this subsection, any provision—

• (a) requiring such traffic to proceed in a specified direction or prohibiting its so proceeding,

• (b) specifying the part of the carriageway to be used by such traffic proceeding in a specified direction,

• (c) prohibiting or restricting the waiting of vehicles or the loading and unloading of vehicles,

• (d) prohibiting the use of roads by through traffic,

• (e) prohibiting or restricting overtaking;

but no prohibition or restriction on waiting imposed under this section shall apply to a stage carriage or express carriage.

• (3A) The provision which may be made by a traffic regulation order shall include any provision prohibiting, restricting or regulating the use of a road or any part of the width thereof by, or by any specified class of, foot passengers, either generally or subject to exceptions specified in the order, and either at all times or at times, on days or during periods so specified.

• (3B) A traffic regulation order may make provision for identifying any part of any road to which, or any time at which or period during which, any provision contained in the order is for the time being to apply by means of a traffic sign of a type or character specified in the order (being a type prescribed or character authorised under section 54 of this Act) and for the time being lawfully in place; and for the purposes of any such order so made any such traffic sign placed on or near a road shall be deemed to be lawfully in place unless the contrary is proved.

• (3C) A traffic regulation order which imposes any restriction upon the use by vehicles of a road, or the waiting of vehicles in a road, may include provision with respect to the issue and display of certificates or other means of " identification of vehicles which are excepted from the restriction, whether generally or in particular circumstances or at particular times.

• (3D) A traffic regulation order may also include provision with respect to the issue, display and operation of devices (to be approved either generally or specially by the appropriate Minister) for indicating the time at which a vehicle arrived at, and the time at which it ought to leave, any place in a road in which waiting is restricted by the order, or one or other of those times, and for treating the indications given by any such device as evidence of such facts and for such purposes as may be prescribed by the order.

• (4) Provision for regulating the speed of vehicles on roads shall not be made under this section.

• (5) Subject to subsection (6) below and section 5 of this Act, no order shall be made under this section with respect to any road which would have the effect of preventing at any time access for foot passengers, or preventing for more than eight hours in any period of twenty-four hours access for vehicles of any class, to any premises situated on or adjacent to the road, or any other premises accessible for traffic of that class from, and only from, the road.

• (6) Subject to section 5 of this Act, subsection (5) above, so far as it relates to vehicles, shall not have effect in so far as the authority making the order is satisfied that, for avoiding danger to persons or other traffic using the road to which the order relates or any other road, or for preventing the likelihood of any such danger arising, or for preventing damage to the road or buildings on or near it, or for facilitating the passage of vehicular traffic on the road, it is requisite that that subsection should not apply, and it is stated in the order that the said authority is satisfied as aforesaid.

• (7) This section shall not apply in relation to any part of a special road on or after such date as may be declared by a notice published by the highway authority, in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations made by the appropriate Minister, to be the date on which it is open for use as a special road.

• (8) A person who contravenes a traffic regulation order or who uses a vehicle, or causes or permits a vehicle to be used, in contravention of a traffic regulation order shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding, in the case of an offence committed in respect of a motor vehicle by a failure to comply with a requirement to proceed or not to proceed in a specified direction or along a specified part of the carriageway, £50 and, in any other case, £20.

• (9) If any local Act contains any provision extending the powers conferred by section 26 of the Road Traffic Act 1960 in the application of that section to the area of any local authority, the appropriate Minister, after consultation with that local authority, may by order made by statutory instrument, which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament, repeal any provision of that local Act which appears to that Minister to be unnecessary, or make any other amendments to that local Act which appear to that Minister to be required, in consequence of the provisions of Part IX of the Transport Act 1968; and the power to make an order under this subsection shall include power to make an order varying or revoking any previous order thereunder.

Certain councils may make orders under ss. 1 and 28 for purpose of general scheme of traffic control.

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• (1) Without prejudice to sections 84A, 84B and 84C of this Act, section 1(5), so far as it relates to vehicles, section 1(6) and section 28(2)(a) of this Act shall not apply to any order made under the said sections 1 and 28 jointly by the council of a borough or urban district, or in Scotland, by a county council or town council, if the order is, and is stated to be, made by virtue of this subsection and for the purpose of a general scheme of traffic control in a stated area, nor to an order made under this Act revoking or varying an order so made.

• (2) Any such provision of an order made as aforesaid as has effect by virtue of section 1 of this Act or of an order revoking or varying an order so made in so far as the last-mentioned order subsists by virtue of that section may, notwithstanding anything in that section, be made so as to apply to a trunk road.

• (3) No authority shall make an order by virtue of subsection (1) above unless they are satisfied that the general scheme of traffic control—

• (a) is adequate in point of area ; and

• (b) takes adequate account of the need for maintaining the free movement of traffic and of the need for maintaining reasonable access to premises ; and

• (c) makes provision for street parking places, and for regulating their use with the aid of apparatus or devices approved by the appropriate Minister, which is suitable, regard being had to the extent to which off-street parking places are available in the neighbourhood or their provision is likely to be encouraged by the scheme.

• (4) Where the council of a county district (other than a rural district) not having power to make traffic regulation orders desires to introduce a general scheme of traffic control in the district or part of it, then (without prejudice to any other power of delegation) for the purpose of enabling that council to introduce such a scheme by means of an order made jointly under sections 1 and 28 of this Act there may—

• (a) on the application of that council to the county council, be delegated to them by the county council all or any of the powers exercisable by the county council in relation to the county district under the said section 1, subject to such restrictions (if any) as the county council think fit to impose ;

• (b) on the application of the first-mentioned council to the Minister, be delegated to them by him all or any of the powers exercisable by him under the said section 1 as respects trunk roads within the county district, subject to such restrictions (if any) as he thinks fit to impose.

Traffic regulation in Greater London

Traffic regulation orders in Greater London.

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• (1) Subject to sections 84A, 84B and 84C of this Act, the authority hereinafter specified may by order make provision for controlling or regulating vehicular and other traffic (including foot passengers) on roads in Greater London and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing words, for any of the purposes, or with respect to any of the matters, mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act and for any other purpose which is a purpose mentioned in any of paragraphs (a) to (f) of section 1(1) of this Act; but no such order shall contain any provision for regulating the speed of vehicles on roads.

• (2) The authority having power to make an order under this section—

• (a) as respects any road other than a trunk road, shall be the Greater London Council;

• (b) as respects a trunk road, shall be the Minister or, with the consent of the Minister, that Council.

• (3) Any order under this section may be made so as to apply—

• (a) to Greater London as a whole, or to particular parts thereof, or to particular places or streets, or parts of streets, therein;

• (b) throughout the day, or during particular periods ;

• (c) on special occasions only, or at special times only ;

• (d) to vehicles and traffic of any class.

• (4) Any such order may make provision for identifying any part of any road to which, or any time at which or period during which, any provision contained in the order is for the time being to apply by means of a traffic sign of a type or character specified in the order (being a type prescribed or character authorised under section 54 of this Act) and for the time being lawfully in place; and for the purposes of any order so made, any such traffic sign placed on or near a street shall be deemed to be lawfully in place unless the contrary is proved.

• (5) Any such order which imposes any restriction upon the use by vehicles of streets in Greater London, or the waiting of vehicles in such streets, may include provision with respect to the issue and display of certificates or other means of identification of vehicles which are excepted from the restriction, whether generally or in particular circumstances or at particular times.

• (6) Any such order may also include provision with respect to the issue, display and operation of devices (to be approved either generally or specially by the Minister) for indicating the time at which a vehicle arrived at, and the time at which it ought to leave, any place in a street in which waiting is restricted by the order, or one or other of those times, and for treating the indications given by any such device as evidence of such facts and for such purposes as may be prescribed by the order.

• (7) Any such order may provide for the suspension or modification so long as the order remains in force of any provisions of any Acts (whether public general or local or private, and including provisions contained in this Act), byelaws or regulations, dealing with the same subject matter as the order, or of any Acts conferring power of making byelaws or regulations dealing with the same subject matter, so far as such provisions apply to any place or street to which the order applies.

• (8) No appeal shall lie to the Minister from the traffic commissioners—

• (a) under section 135(8) or section 143 of the Road Traffic Act 1960, in the case of a decision of those commissioners with respect to a road service licence for a route wholly or partly within the Metropolitan Traffic Area, or

• (b) under section 141(4) or (6) of that Act, in the case of a decision with respect to the approval of a route for a road service provided wholly or partly within the London special area by the London Transport Board,

if and so far as it is certified by the commissioners that the decision was necessary to secure conformity with any order in force under this section, being an order prescribing the routes to be followed, or streets which are not to be used, by vehicles affected by the decision, the places in streets where such vehicles may or may not wait, or the stopping places for such vehicles.

• (9) If a person acts in contravention of or fails to comply with any order under this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding, in the case of an offence committed in respect of a motor vehicle by a failure to comply with a requirement to proceed or not to proceed in a specified direction or along a specified part of the carriageway, £50 and, in any other case, £20.

• (11) This section shall not apply in relation to any part of a special road on or after such date as may be declared by a notice published by the highway authority, in manner prescribed for the publication of notices under section 1(7) of this Act to be the date on which it is open for use as a special road.

• (12) In this section and in Schedule 1 to this Act " street " includes any highway and any bridge carrying a highway, and any lane, mews, footway, square, court, alley or passage whether a thoroughfare or not, and references in this section to the London special area and the Metropolitan Traffic Area shall be construed in like manner as if they were contained in the Road Traffic Act 1960.

Provisions as to Minister's orders under s. 6.

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• (2) Before making any order under section 6 of this Act which will impose new or additional duties on the police, the Minister shall consult the Secretary of State.

Provisions as to Greater London Council's orders under s. 6.

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• (1) Without prejudice to subsection (1) and to any regulations under subsection (4) of section 84C of this Act, before making any order under section 6 of this Act otherwise than in pursuance of a direction given by the Minister under section 84A(1) thereof, the Greater London Council (hereafter in this section referred to as " the Council ") shall consult with any other council, being a London borough council or the Common Council, within whose area any road affected by the proposed order lies or whose area appears to the Council likely to be affected by that order and, if the order is required to be submitted to the Minister for his consent under section 84B(2) of this Act, the Council shall so consult before so submitting it.

Experimental traffic schemes

Experimental traffic orders.

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• (1) Subject to sections 84A, 84B and 84C of this Act, for the purpose of carrying out an experimental scheme of traffic control the authority hereinafter specified may by order under this subsection (in this section referred to as an " experimental traffic order ") make the like provision—

• (a) as respects any road outside Greater London, as may be made by an order under section 1 of this Act;

• (b) as respects traffic on roads in Greater London, as may be made by an order under section 6 of this Act.

• (2) Subject to section 82 of this Act, the authority having power to make an experimental traffic order—

• (a) as respects roads outside Greater London, other than trunk roads, shall be the local authority ;

• (b) as respects roads in Greater London, other than trunk roads, shall be the Greater London Council;

• (c) as respects any trunk road in Greater London, shall be the appropriate Minister or, with the consent of that Minister, the Greater London Council;

• (d) as respects trunk roads outside Greater London, shall be the appropriate Minister.

• (3) An experimental traffic order shall not continue in force for longer than the following period, that is to say—

• (a) if it is made by a local authority, a period of six months ;

• (b) if it is made by the appropriate Minister or by the Greater London Council, a period of eighteen months ;