Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980

Transfer of certain powers to make traffic regulation orders and experimental traffic orders and extension of powers to make experimental traffic orders

9 (1) The following subsections shall be substituted for section 1(2) of the [1967 c. 76.] Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967: —

“(2) Subject to subsection (2A) of this section and to section 82 of this Act, the authority having power to make traffic regulation orders—

(a) as respects roads other than trunk roads, shall be the local authority, that is to say, the county council in England or Wales and the local highway authority in Scotland ; and

(b) as respects trunk roads, shall be the appropriate Minister.

(2A) An order made by virtue of subsection (2) (a) above may relate to a length of trunk road if the order forms part of a scheme of general traffic control relating to roads at least one of which has a junction with the length of trunk road in question.

(2B) No order relating to a trunk road shall be made by virtue of subsection (2A) above without the consent of the appropriate Minister.”.

(2) The following subsections shall be substituted for section 9(2) of that Act—

“(2) Subject to section 82 of this Act, the authority having power to make an experimental traffic order—

(a) as respects any roads outside Greater London, shall be the authority who would have power to make an order under section 1(2) and 1(2A) of this Act in relation to them; and

(b) as respects any roads in Greater London, shall be the authority who would have power to make an order under section 6(2) of this Act in relation to them.

(2A) No order relating to a trunk road shall be made by virtue of subsection (2) above without the consent of the appropriate Minister.”.

(3) In the said section 9—

(a) the following subsections shall be substituted for subsection (3):

“(3) An experimental traffic order shall not continue in force for longer than 18 months.

(3A) Subject to sections 84A, 84B and 84C of this Act—

(a) where an authority have made an experimental traffic order for a period of less than 18 months ; and

(b) the order has not ceased to be in force,

the authority may from time to time by order under this subsection direct that it shall continue in force for a further period ending not more than 18 months after it first came into force.”;

(6) in subsection (5)—

(i) the words " made by the Greater London Council" shall be omitted ; and

(ii) for the words " that Council" there shall be substituted the words " the authority who made the order ".