The London Borough of Barnet (Trunk Roads) Red Route (Priority Traffic Lanes) Experimental Traffic Order 1999

Exemptions

4.—(1) The controls specified in article 3 do not apply in respect of a vehicle which is being used for a purpose which is within an exemption to a restriction or prohibition imposed by any other Order or which is permitted by any other Order.

(2) The controls specified in article 3 do not apply so as to prevent a vehicle being in a priority traffic lane if and for as long as necessary–

(a) to enable a person to get on or off the vehicle; or

(b) to enable goods to be loaded on to or unloaded from the vehicle;

if and in so far as the activity is not prohibited by the provisions of any other Order.

(3) The controls specified in article 3 do not apply in respect of a vehicle being in a priority traffic lane if the vehicle is being used in–

(a) the service of a local authority for the purpose of collecting refuse;

(b) the pursuance of any statutory duty of the Post Office for the purpose of collection or delivering letters provided the vehicle bears the Royal Mail livery;

(c) connection with the removal of any obstruction to traffic;

(d) connection with the maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of any road;

(e) connection with the maintenance, improvement or construction of any street furniture including bus stop infrastructure;

(f) connection with any building operation or demolition;

(g) connection with the laying, erection, alteration or repair in or near the priority traffic lane of any sewer or of any main, pipe or apparatus for the supply of gas, water or electricity, or of any telecommunications apparatus as defined in paragraph 1(1) of the Schedule 2 of the Telecommunications Act 1984(1);

if the vehicle cannot be used for that purpose without being in the priority traffic lane and in so far as the activity is not prohibited by the provisions of any other Order.

(4) The controls specified in article 3 do not apply in respect of a vehicle being in a priority traffic lane–

(a) so as to avoid an accident;

(b) to allow a person to get or give help in consequence of an accident or emergency or otherwise take action for public safety;

(c) to such an extent and for such a time as is needed to comply with any requirement resulting from works or an emergency in any part of the road adjoining the priority traffic lane;

(d) if it is being used for ambulance, fire brigade or police purposes.

(5) The controls specified in article 3 do not apply in respect of–

(a) a vehicle crossing a priority traffic lane to get to or from any road adjacent to the priority traffic lane or any stopping box or in adjacent to the priority traffic lane or any vehicular access to premises adjacent to the priority traffic lane;

(b) anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or a traffic warden.

(1)

1991 c. 40.