The Traffic Management (Bedford Borough Council) Permit Scheme Order 2012

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 2541

Highways, England

The Traffic Management (Bedford Borough Council) Permit Scheme Order 2012

Made

3rd October 2012

Coming into force

5th November 2012

The Secretary of State for Transport having approved the Bedford Borough Council Permit Scheme under section 34(2) of the Traffic Management Act 2004(1) makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 34(4) and (5) and 39(2) of that Act.

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Traffic Management (Bedford Borough Council) Permit Scheme Order 2012 and comes into force on 5th November 2012.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order—

“Bedford Borough Council Permit Scheme ” means the permit scheme set out in the Schedule to this Order in terms commonly known as the “East of England Common Permit Scheme” which was prepared and submitted to the Secretary of State by Bedford Borough Council and has been approved by the Secretary of State; and

“specified streets” has the meaning given by regulation 8 of the Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007(2).

Commencement of Permit Scheme

3.  The Bedford Borough Council Permit Scheme comes into effect on 5th November 2012.

Application of Part 8 of the Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007

4.  Part 8 of the Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007 shall apply to the specified streets within Bedford Borough Council Permit Scheme.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Norman Baker

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

3rd October 2012

Article 2

SCHEDULE BEDFORD BOROUGH COUNCIL PERMIT SCHEME

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order gives effect to the Bedford Borough Council Permit Scheme.

The Bedford Borough Council Permit Scheme is designed to control the carrying out of works in specified streets in Bedford by imposing an obligation to obtain a permit from Bedford Council before undertaking the works.

Article 3 gives effect to the permit scheme, which will come into effect on 5th November 2012. The permit scheme referred to in this article is set out in the Schedule to the Order.

Article 4 applies Part 8 of the Traffic Management Permit Scheme (England) Regulations 2007 (which makes provision for the disapplication and modification of enactments in relation to specified works in specified streets) to the specified works and specified streets within the Bedford Borough Council Permit Scheme.

A copy of Bedford Borough Council Permit Scheme is deposited and can be inspected at the offices of Bedford Borough Council, Town Hall, St Paul’s Square, Bedford MK40 1SJ and is available to inspect on the Council’s website http://www.bedford.gov.uk.

(1)

2004. c.18.

(2)

S.I. 2007/3372.