The Road Traffic (Permitted Parking Area and Special Parking Area) (County of Bedfordshire) (Districts of Mid-Bedfordshire and South Bedfordshire) Order 2004

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (Permitted Parking Area and Special Parking Area) (County of Bedfordshire) (Districts of Mid-Bedfordshire and South Bedfordshire) Order 2004 and shall come into force on 2nd February 2004.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“the 1984 Act” means the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1);

“the 1991 Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1991; and

“the parking area” means the area designated as a permitted parking area and as a special parking area by article 4 of this Order.

Application

3.—(1) This Order applies to the whole of the district of Mid-Bedfordshire except—

(a) the entire length of the M1, including its on and off slip roads, within the district;

(b) the entire length of the A1, including its on and off slip roads, within the district;

(c) the entire length of the A5 within the district;

(d) the entire length of the A421 within the district;

(e) the entire length of the A6 within the district;

(f) the A507 from its junction with the A600 at Shefford, and including the circulatory carriageway of the roundabout that forms that junction, to its junction with the A1 at Stotfold;

(g) the A600 from its junction with the A507 at Shefford to the northern boundary of the district; and

(h) the B530 from the northern boundary of the district to the northern property boundary of number 65 Bedford Street, Ampthill.

(2) This Order applies to the whole of the district of South Bedfordshire except—

(a) the entire length of the M1, including its on and off slip roads and the motorway link road between junctions 10 and 10A, within the district;

(b) the entire length of the A6, including its on and off slip roads, within the district; and

(c) the entire length of the A5 within the district.

Designation of permitted parking area and special parking area

4.  The Secretary of State hereby designates the area to which this Order applies as—

(a) a permitted parking area; and

(b) a special parking area.

Modification and application of Part II of the 1991 Act

5.  Sections 66, 69 to 74, 78, 79 and 82 of, and Schedule 6 to, the 1991 Act shall apply in relation to the parking area and as so applied shall have effect subject to the modifications specified in Schedule 1 to this Order.

Modification of other provisions

6.  The 1984 Act shall be modified in relation to the parking area as specified in Schedule 2 to this Order.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Tony McNulty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department for Transport

7th January 2004