127.—(1) In executing works in a road or street which may impede the mobility of disabled persons or blind persons, the Department and any other person exercising a statutory power to execute such works shall have regard to the needs of such persons.
(2) The Department or other person mentioned in paragraph (1) shall have regard to the needs of disabled and blind persons when placing lamp-posts, bollards, traffic signs, apparatus or other permanent obstructions in a road or street.
(3) The Department shall have regard to the needs of disabled persons when considering the desirability of providing ramps at appropriate places between carriageways and footways.
(4) In executing in a road or street any such works as are mentioned in paragraph (1), the Department or other person mentioned in that paragraph shall have regard to the need of blind persons to have any openings, whether temporary or permanent, in the road or street properly protected.
(5) Section 18 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons (Northern Ireland) Act 1978(1) (power to define certain expressions for the purposes of provisions of that Act) shall have effect as if any reference in it to a provision of that Act included a reference to this Article.
(6) In this Article “street” means any street, lane, square, court, alley or passage to which the public has access, not being a road.