Road Traffic Act 1930

46 Power to restrict use of vehicles on specified roads.

(1) The Minister may, on the application of a council to which this section applies and after holding, if he thinks fit, a public inquiry, by order prohibit or restrict, subject to such exceptions and conditions as to occasional user or otherwise as may be specified in the order, the driving of vehicles, or of any specified class or description of vehicles, on any specified road within the area of the council in any case in which he is satisfied that any such vehicles cannot be used, or cannot without restriction be used, on that road without endangering the safety of the vehicles or the persons therein, or of other persons using the road, or that the road is unsuitable for use or for unrestricted use by any such vehicles.

(2) The Minister may on the application of a council to which this section applies or the governing body of any university in the receipt of a grant from public moneys and after holding, if he thinks fit, a public inquiry, make an order for any of the following purposes :—

(a) the specification of the routes to be followed by vehicles;

(b) the prohibition or restriction of the use of specified roads by vehicles of any specified class or description, either generally or during particular hours;

(c) the prohibition of the driving of vehicles on any specified road otherwise than in a specified direction;

(d) otherwise in relation to the regulation of traffic.

Provided that no order shall be made under this subsection with respect to any road which would have the effect of preventing such access as may be reasonably required for vehicles of any class or description to any premises situated on or adjacent to the road.

(3) The Minister may at any time after giving notice to the council on whose application an order under this section, or an order under the corresponding provision of any enactment repealed by this Act, was made and after holding, if he thinks fit a public inquiry, revoke, vary or amend the order.

(4) Where an order is made under this section the council on whose application the order, or the original order, was made shall publish in such manner as may be prescribed notice of the fact that the order has been made and of its effect.

(5) The provisions contained in the Second Schedule to this Act shall have effect with respect to applications and inquiries under this section.

(6) Any person who uses a vehicle or causes or permits a vehicle to be used in contravention of an order made under this section shall be liable in the case of a first conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

(7) No order made under this section shall apply to the driving of any tramcar or trolley vehicle in pursuance of the powers of any special Act of Parliament or order having the force of an Act.

(8) The councils to which this section applies are the councils of counties or county boroughs or of urban districts having a population of over twenty thousand according to the last census for the time being.

(9) In the case of the administrative county of London an application under this section may be made by a highway authority as respects any road vested in them.