The A249 Trunk Road (Iwade Bypass to Queenborough Improvement) (24 Hours Clearway) Order 2006

Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 1956

ROAD TRAFFIC

The A249 Trunk Road (Iwade Bypass to Queenborough Improvement) (24 Hours Clearway) Order 2006

Made

14th July 2006

Coming into force

31st July 2006

The Secretary of State for Transport in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1), 2(1) and (2) and 4(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1), having consulted with such representative organisations as he thought fit, hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the A249 Trunk Road (Iwade Bypass to Queenborough Improvement) (24 Hours Clearway) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 31st July 2006.

2.  In this Order:

“the new Trunk Road” means the new Trunk Road at Iwade and on the Isle of Sheppey in the Borough of Swale in the County of Kent constructed in pursuance of the trunk road orders;

“the trunk road orders” means the A249 Trunk Road (Iwade Bypass to Neatscourt roundabout and Bridge) Order 2000(2) and the A249 Trunk Road (Neatscourt roundabout to Queenborough Improvement) Order 2001(3).

3.  Save as provided in article 4 below, no person shall cause or permit any vehicle to wait on any part of the new Trunk Road, specified in the Schedule to this Order, except upon the direction of, or with the permission of, a police officer in uniform or a traffic warden.

4.  Nothing in article 3 shall apply—

(a) to render it unlawful to cause or permit a vehicle waiting on any part of the new Trunk Road, for so long as may be necessary to enable that vehicle to be used in connection with—

(i) the removal of any obstruction to traffic;

(ii) the maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of the trunk road;

• or

(iii) the laying, erection, inspection, maintenance, alteration, repair, renewal or removal in or near the trunk road of any sewer, main, pipe, conduit, wire, cable or other apparatus for the supply of gas, water, electricity or any telecommunications apparatus as defined in Schedule 2 of the Telecommunications Act 1984(4);

(b) in relation to a vehicle being used—

(i) for police, ambulance or fire brigade purposes;

(ii) in the services of a local authority in pursuance of statutory powers or duties;

(iii) in the service of a water of sewerage undertaker within the meaning of the Water Industry Act 1991(5); or

(c) in relation to a vehicle waiting when the person in control of it is—

(i) required by law to stop;

(ii) obliged to stop in order to avoid an accident; or

(iii) prevented from proceeding by circumstances outside his or her control.

Signed by authority ofthe Secretary of State for Transport

Peter Wallwork

Divisional Director Highways Agency

Department for Transport

14th July 2006

THE SCHEDULE

The length of the new Trunk Road on the Isle of Sheppey in the County of Kent constructed in pursuance of the trunk road order from a point approximately 400 metres south of the centre of the A249 Iwade Bypass northern terminal roundabout (Kingsferry Interchange) to a point approximately 500m to the north of the junction between the new Trunk Road and Main Road (B2007), a total distance of approximately 6.05 kilometres (3.78 miles).

(1)

1984 c. 27; sections 1(1) 2(1) and (2) were amended by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22), section 168 and Schedule 8, paragraphs 17(2) and 18(2) and(3).

(2)

S.I. 2000/2695.

(3)

S.I. 2001/2213.

(4)

1984 c. 12.

(5)

1991 c. 56.