The Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 1999

Regulation 19

SCHEDULE 6

PART I CONSOLIDATION ORDERS, CERTAIN VARIATION AND OTHER ORDERS SUBJECT TO SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE

1.—(1) An order the sole effect of which is to vary an order under section 1, 9, 35, 45 or 46 of the Act so as to include in the order being varied an exemption in respect of a disabled person’s vehicle of the same kind as is mentioned in regulation 4 of the Local Authorities Traffic Orders (Exemption for Disabled Persons) (Scotland) Regulations 1971 or a provision conferring on a traffic warden functions similar to those conferred by the order on a police constable in uniform, or both such exemption and such provision.

(2) An order the sole effect of which is to substitute a prohibition or restriction on the use of vehicles having a maximum gross weight of 16.5 or 17 tonnes for an identical prohibition or restriction on the use of vehicles having a maximum gross weight of 18 tonnes.

(3) An order the sole effect of which is to substitute, for any reference to a vehicle adapted to carry 12 passengers or to a vehicle adapted to carry more than 12 passengers, a reference to a vehicle adapted to carry more than 8 passengers.

(4) An order the sole effect of which is–

(a) to prohibit or restrict the waiting or the loading or unloading of vehicles, or

(b) to authorise the use of any part of a road as a parking place,

in so far as the variation is necessary to make the order compatible with any regulations under section 25 of the Act.

(5) An order the effect of which appears necessary or expedient to the order making authority as a consequence of the coming into force of a designation order under Schedule 3 to the Road Traffic Act 1991(1) (permitted or special parking areas).

(6) An order the sole effect of which is the variation or revocation of an order under section 35(1)(b)(iv) or 46(2)(e) of the Act authorising a person to remove or arrange for the removal of a vehicle from a parking place.

(7) An order the sole effect of which is the variation of an order under section 35 or 46(2) of the Act regulating the method, or requiring the use of apparatus, by which any charges for the use of a parking place are to be paid.

(8) An order the sole effect of which is the prohibition of, or the revocation or variation of a provision in an order whose sole effect is to prohibit, the riding of cycles or mopeds on a footbridge, in a pedestrian subway or on the approaches to such a bridge or subway.

(9) An order which relates solely to one or more parking places provided by means of stands and racks for bicycles pursuant to section 63 of the Act.

(10) An order the sole effect of which is to postpone for a period of not more than 6 months the coming into force of any provision of an existing order.

(11) An order combining the effects of two or more of any of the foregoing orders.

PART II INTERPRETATION

2.  In this Schedule–

“cycle” means a pedal cycle which is not a motor vehicle;

“maximum gross weight” has the same meaning as in the Traffic Signs Regulations 1994(2); and

“moped” has the meaning given by paragraph 5 of Schedule 9 to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(3).

(1)

1991 c. 40; schedule 3 was amended by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act (c.39), Schedule 13, paragraph 171.

(2)

Part I of S.I. 1994/1519 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(3)

S.I. 1986/1078, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.