Road Traffic Act 1960

Exclusion of Application of certain Provisions to Tramcars and Trolley Vehicles

259 Exclusion of application of certain provisions to tramcars and trolley vehicles

(1) None of the following provisions contained in Part I of this Act, and no orders or regulations made under those provisions shall apply to tramcars or trolley vehicles operated under statutory powers, that is to say, sections four, five, seven, eighteen to twenty-nine (both inclusive), thirty-six, thirty-eight, sixty-four, sixty-six, sixty-eight, sixty-nine, seventy-two, seventy-three and seventy-seven, and the following provisions so contained shall not apply to tramcars so operated, that is to say, sections two and three, subsection (1) of section six and section seventy-eight.

(2) Part II of this Act shall not apply to tramcars operated under statutory powers and sections ninety-seven and one hundred and sixteen thereof shall not apply to trolley vehicles so operated.

(3) Section one hundred and sixty-four of this Act shall not apply to the use of tramcars or trolley vehicles operated as aforesaid.

(4) Part VI of this Act, and the following provisions contained in this Part of this Act, that is to say, sections two hundred and seventeen to two hundred and nineteen (both inclusive), two hundred and twenty-two to two hundred and twenty-four (both inclusive), two hundred and twenty-six, two hundred and twenty-eight, two hundred and thirty, two hundred and thirty-one, two hundred and forty-one, two hundred and fifty-five and two hundred and fifty-six, shall not apply to tramcars or trolley vehicles operated as aforesaid and section two hundred and twenty-five shall not apply to tramcars so operated.

(5) In this section " operated under statutory powers " means, in relation to tramcars or trolley vehicles, that their use is authorised or regulated by special Act of Parliament or by an order having the force of an Act.

(6) Subsections (1), (2) and (4) of this section shall have effect subject to any such Act or order as is mentioned in the last foregoing subsection, and any such Act or order may apply to the tramcars or trolley vehicles to which it relates any of the provisions excluded by the said subsections (1), (2) and (4) except sections twenty-six to twenty-nine (both inclusive), thirty-six, thirty-eight and sixty-six.