The Docklands Light Railway (Capacity Enhancement and 2012 Games Preparation) Order 2007

Traffic regulation

39.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article DLRL may, for the purposes of the construction of the authorised works and with the consent of the traffic authority in whose area the relevant street is situated (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld)—

(a) prohibit or restrict the parking, stopping, waiting or the loading or unloading of vehicles, at any time, in the relevant streets;

(b) suspend temporarily the use of any parking place within a relevant street; and

(c) revoke any traffic regulation order in so far as it is inconsistent with any prohibition or restriction made by DLRL under this paragraph.

(2) DLRL shall consult the chief officer of police and the traffic authority in whose area the road is situated before complying with the provisions of paragraph (3).

(3) DLRL shall not exercise the powers of this article unless it has—

(a) given not less than 6 weeks' notice in writing of its intention to do so to the chief officer of police and the traffic authority in whose area the relevant streets are situated; and

(b) not less than 7 days before exercising any power conferred by this article, given notice of the intention to exercise that power by publishing a notice in a local newspaper circulating in the area.

(4) Any prohibition, restriction or other provision made by DLRL under sub-paragraph (1) (a), (b) or (c) shall have effect as if duly made by the traffic authority in whose area the street is situated as a traffic regulation order under the 1984 Act and the instrument by which it is effected may specify savings to which the prohibition, restriction or other provision is subject.

(5) Any prohibition or restriction made by DLRL under paragraph (1) above shall not apply to any vehicle of a statutory utility for so long as it is engaged in connection with the laying, erection, alteration, repair or inspection of any apparatus of that utility.

(6) In this article—

“the relevant streets” means the carriageway of the streets specified in columns (1) and (2) of Schedule 14; and

“statutory utility” means a statutory undertaker for the purposes of the 1980 Act or a public communications provider.