The Traffic Management (Northamptonshire County Council) Permit Scheme Order 2010

Made: 22nd November 2010

Coming into force: 10th January 2011

The Secretary of State for Transport, having approved the Northamptonshire County Council Permit Scheme under section 34(2) of the Traffic Management Act 2004[^f00001], makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 34(4) and (5) and 39(2) of that Act.

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Traffic Management (Northamptonshire County Council) Permit Scheme Order 2010 and is to come into effect on 10th January 2011.

Interpretation

2

In this Order—

• “the Northamptonshire County Council Permit Scheme” means the permit scheme set out in the Schedule to this Order which was prepared and submitted to the Secretary of State by Northamptonshire County Council and approved by the Secretary of State on 28th June 2010; and

• “specified streets” has the meaning given by regulation 8 of the Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007[^f00002].

Commencement of Permit Scheme

3

The Northamptonshire County Council Permit Scheme comes into effect on 10th January 2011.

Application of Part 8 of the Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007

4

Part 8 of the Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007 applies to the specified streets within the Northamptonshire County Council Permit Scheme.

SCHEDULE — THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

PERMIT SCHEME

Signed

Norman Baker — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Transport — 22nd November 2010

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order gives effect to the Northamptonshire Permit Scheme for Road Works and Street Works (in the Order called the Northamptonshire County Council Permit Scheme).

The Northamptonshire County Council Permit Scheme is designed to control the carrying out of works in specified streets in Northamptonshire by imposing an obligation to obtain a permit from Northamptonshire County Council before undertaking the works.

Article 3gives effect to the permit scheme, which will come into effect on 10th January 2011. The permit scheme referred to in this article is set out in the Schedule to the Order.

Article 4 applies Part 8 of the Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007 (which makes provision for the disapplication and modification of enactments in relation to specified works in specified streets) to the specified streets within the Northamptonshire County Council Permit Scheme.

A copy of the Northamptonshire County Council Permit Scheme is deposited and can be inspected at the offices of Northamptonshire County Council, Transport and Highways, Riverside House, Riverside Way, Northampton, NN1 5NX and is also available to inspect on the Northamptonshire County Council website;

www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councilservices/Transport/roads/Pages/PermitScheme.aspx

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2004 c.18.

[^f00002]: SI 2007/3372.