(1)It shall be lawful for a highway authority to provide, erect, maintain and operate, or to join with another highway authority in providing, erecting, maintaining and operating, weighbridges or other machines for weighing vehicles or to contribute towards the cost of the provision, erection, maintenance and operation of any such weighbridge or other machine by any other authority or person.
(2)The provision or erection, or the making of a contribution towards the provision or erection, of any such weighbridge or other machine shall be a purpose for which the highway authority may borrow.
Section forty-one of the Thames Embankment Act, 1862, shall not apply to motor tractors, heavy motor cars, motor cars, motor cycles or invalid carriages, but save as aforesaid nothing in this Act shall affect the provisions of that section.
(1)It is hereby declared that nothing in Part III, IV or V of this Act is to be treated as conferring on the holder of a licence granted under any of those Parts any right to the continuance of any benefits arising from, or from a licence granted under, any of those Parts, or from any conditions attached to any such licence.
(2)In the event of an undertaking by which a service of public service vehicles is provided being purchased compulsorily by a local or public authority, that part of the value of the undertaking attributable directly or indirectly to Part III of this Act shall not be taken into account.
The enactments specified in the Seventeenth Schedule to this Act shall have effect subject to the amendments respectively specified in relation thereto in that Schedule.
(1)A provision of an Act other than this Act or one of those mentioned in the Seventeenth Schedule to this Act, or of an instrument having effect under an enactment not repealed by this Act, which (however expressed) defines "public service vehicle ", " stage carriage ", " express carriage " or " contract carriage" by reference to the Road Traffic Act, 1930, or " London Traffic Area" by reference to the London Traffic Act, 1924, shall have effect as if it provided that that expression should be construed in like manner as if it were contained in this Act.
(2)References in any enactment to a licensing authority for public service vehicles shall be construed as references to the traffic commissioners for a traffic area constituted for the purposes of Part III of this Act, and references in any enactment to the licensing authority for goods vehicles shall be construed as references to the licensing authority for the purposes of Part IV of this Act.
The following enactments shall cease to have effect, that is to say,—
(a)section six of the Locomotive Act, 1861 (which restricts the use of locomotives over suspension and other bridges),
(b)section seven of that Act (which relates to the making good of damage to bridges caused by locomotives or their trailers), and
(c)section seven of the Locomotives Act, 1898 (which enables owners of locomotives to appeal against restrictions on passing over bridges), and section eight of that Act (which prohibits locomotives' being driven so as to pass one another on bridges).
(1)The enactments specified in Part I of the Eighteenth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Part of that Schedule, and the orders and regulations specified in Part II of that Schedule are hereby revoked to the extent specified in the third column of that Part of that Schedule.
(2)The saving and transitional provisions contained in the Nineteenth Schedule to this Act shall have effect.
The inclusion in this Act of any express saving or amendment shall not be taken as prejudicing the operation of section thirty-eight of the Interpretation Act, 1889 (which relates to the effect of repeals).
Nothing in this Act shall authorise a person to use on a road a vehicle so constructed or used as to cause a public or private nuisance, or in Scotland a nuisance, or affect the liability, whether under statute or common law, of the driver or owner so using such a vehicle.
(1)This Act, except the provisions thereof specified in Part I of the Twentieth Schedule thereto, shall come into operation on the first day of September, nineteen hundred and sixty, and notwithstanding section thirty-six of the Interpretation Act, 1889 (which defines " commencement" when used with reference to an Act), references in this Act to the commencement thereof shall be construed as referring to the time at which this Act, except the provisions aforesaid, comes into operation.
(2)The provisions of Part II of the Twentieth Schedule to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of providing for the coming into operation of the provisions of this Act specified in Part I of that Schedule and the provisions of Part III of that Schedule shall have effect for temporarily extending, in the case therein specified, the provisions of section sixty-four of this Act.
(1)This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic Act, 1960.
(2)This Act shall not extend to Northern Ireland.