The Walkways Regulations 1973

Certain statutory provisions not to apply to walkways

2.—(1) The enactments specified in Schedule 1 to these Regulations and any local statutory provision affecting highways, being a provision similar in effect to an enactment so specified, shall not apply to a walkway or proposed walkway or to anything done on or in connection with a walkway or proposed walkway.

(2) Where any statutory provision affecting highways would operate so as to render ineffective, or to interfere with the effect of, any provision in a walkway agreement for limiting the public right of way over a walkway the subject of that agreement or for imposing conditions with respect to that right, or for reserving rights to the building owner, then, subject to paragraph (3) of this Regulation, that statutory provision shall not apply in relation to that walkway to the extent that it would so operate.

(3) Nothing in paragraph (2) of this Regulation shall affect the operation in relation to a walkway of:—

(a) any statutory provision for regulating the conduct or activities of members of the public when on a highway or for prohibiting any particular conduct or activity of members of the public when on a highway,

(b) any statutory provision relating to vehicles when used on a highway, in the application of such provision to any vehicle lawfully on the walkway,

(c) any statutory provision relating to the functions of the justices or the police with respect to highways or to things done or occurring on highways,

(d) (without prejudice to the generality of (a), (b) or (c) above) any of the enactments specified in Schedule 2 to these Regulations, to the extent there specified.