The River Mersey (Mersey Gateway Bridge) Order 2011

Restriction on use of the new crossing by certain classes of vehicle or person

36.—(1) No vehicle shall be permitted to enter upon or use any of the bridge roads unless it is a vehicle within a class of motor vehicles contained or referred to in Classes B(a), B(b), C(a), C(b), E(a) or E(b) in Part 2, or any class of vehicle referred to in Parts 3 to 5, of the Schedule to the Road User Charging and Work Place Parking Levy (Classes of Motor Vehicles) (England) Regulations 2001(1) and no person shall be permitted to enter upon or use those roads unless they are a person carried by or within such a vehicle.

(2) The undertaker may at any time suspend the restriction in paragraph (1)—

(a) in relation to any class of vehicle or a vehicle or person within a vehicle of such a class;

(b) for any length of time; or

(c) in respect of all or any part of the bridge roads,

if at any time it considers it necessary or expedient to do so.

(1)

S.I. 2001/2793.