High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Act 2021

Issue of emergency permits U.K.

3 (1) This paragraph applies where a person proposes to undertake a journey before the end of the next complete eight working days, being a journey— U.K.

(a) proposed to be undertaken in connection with the carrying out of authorised works, and

(b) for which a permit under a lorry ban order is required if the prohibition, restriction or requirement is not to be breached.

(2) The person may apply for a permit under the lorry ban order for the journey by giving the details mentioned in sub-paragraph (3), by telephone or by electronic means, to the authority responsible for dealing with permits under the order.

(3) The details referred to above are—

(a) the identity of the applicant,

(b) how the applicant may be contacted by telephone or by electronic means,

(c) the registration number of the vehicle to which the application relates,

(d) the authorised works in connection with which the journey is to be undertaken,

(e) whether any approved arrangements are relevant to the application and, if so, what they are,

(f) the date when the journey is proposed to be undertaken,

(g) in the case of an order made otherwise than by the Secretary of State or a strategic highways company, whether it is proposed to stop in the area of the traffic authority for delivery or collection purposes and, if so, the place or places and time or times at which it is proposed to do so, and

(h) in the case of an order made by the Secretary of State or a strategic highways company, such details of the place or places and time or times at which it is proposed to stop for delivery or collection purposes as may be set out in conditions attaching to consent given under paragraph 1(4).

4 (1) An authority responsible for dealing with permits under a lorry ban order must make arrangements enabling applications under paragraph 3 to be made at any time. U.K.

(2) Once an application for a permit has been made under paragraph 3, then, for the purpose of any relevant journey, the application is to be treated as granted subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State may by order specify.

(3) A journey is a relevant journey for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) if it is begun before the authority to which the application is made has communicated its decision on the application to the applicant by the means specified by the application under paragraph 3(3)(b).

(4) The power to make an order under sub-paragraph (2) includes—

(a) power to make different provision for different cases, and

(b) power to make an order varying or revoking any order previously made under that provision.