Road Traffic Act 1960

Section 34.

FOURTH SCHEDULE Scope of Traffic Regulations that may be made by the Minister for the London Traffic Area

1 For prescribing the routes to be followed by all classes of traffic, or by any particular class or classes of traffic or vehicles, from one specified point to another, either generally or between any specified times.

2 For prescribing streets which are not to be used for traffic by vehicles, or by vehicles of any specified class or classes, either generally or at specified times.

3 For regulating the relative position in the roadway of traffic of differing speeds or types.

4 For prescribing the places where vehicles or vehicles of any particular class or description may not turn so as to face in the opposite direction to that in which they were proceeding, or where they may only so turn under conditions prescribed by the regulations.

5 For prescribing the conditions subject to which, and the times at which, articles of exceptionally heavy weight or exceptionally large dimensions may be carried by road.

6 For prescribing the number and maximum size and weight of trailers which may be drawn on streets by vehicles or vehicles of any particular class or description either generally or on streets of any class or description, and for prescribing that a man should be carried on the trailer or, where more than one trailer is drawn, on the rear trailer for signalling to the driver.

7 For prescribing the conditions subject to which, and the times at which, articles may be loaded on to or unloaded from vehicles, or vehicles of any particular class or description, on streets.

8 For prescribing the conditions subject to which, and the times at which, vehicles, or vehicles of any particular class or description, delivering or collecting goods or merchandise, or delivering goods or merchandise of any particular class or classes, may stand in streets, or in streets of any class or description, or in specified streets.

9 For prescribing the conditions subject to which, and the times at which, vehicles, or vehicles of any particular class or description, may be used on streets for collecting refuse.

10 For prescribing rules as to precedence to be observed as between vehicles proceeding in the same direction, in opposite directions, or-when crossing.

11 For prescribing the conditions subject to which, and the times at which, horses, cattle, sheep and other animals may be led or driven on streets within the metropolitan police district and the City of London.

12 For requiring the erection, exhibition, and removal of traffic notices, and as to the form, plan, and character of such notices.

13 Broken down vehicles.

14 Vehicles, or vehicles of any particular class or description, when unattended.

15 Places in streets where vehicles, or vehicles of any particular class or description, may, or may not, wait either generally or at particular times.

16 Cab ranks and ranks and stopping places of omnibuses and other public conveyances.

17 Cabs and hackney carriages not hired and being in a street elsewhere than on a cab rank.

18 For restricting the use of vehicles and animals, and of sand-wichmen and other persons, in streets for the purposes of advertisement of such a nature or in such a manner as to be likely to be a source of danger or to cause obstruction to traffic.

19 The lighting and guarding of street works.

20 The erection or placing or the removal of any works or objects likely to hinder the free circulation of traffic in any street, or likely to occasion danger to passengers or vehicles.

21 Queues of persons waiting in streets.

22 Priority of entry to public vehicles.

23 For enabling any police, local or other public authority, in the event of any person failing to do anything which under the regulations he ought to have done, to do such act, and to recover the expenses thereof from the person so in default summarily as a civil debt.