The Motorways Traffic (M621 Motorway) Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1077

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Motorways Traffic (M621 Motorway) Regulations 1999

Made

1st April 1999

Laid before Parliament

15th April 1999

Coming into force

17th May 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17(2) and (3) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 134(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:–

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Motorways Traffic (M621 Motorway) Regulation 1999 and shall come into force on 17th May 1999.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations “the specified length of carriageway” means that part of the northbound carriageway of the M621 Motorway in the City of Leeds which lies between–

(a) a point 145 metres east of the centre line of the Belle Isle Bridge; and

(b) a point 96 metres west of the centre line of Alpha Street Footbridge.

Regulation 12 of the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982 not to apply

3.  Regulation 12 of the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982(2) (restriction on use of right hand or off side lane) shall not apply to any vehicle using the specified length of carriageway.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Larry Whitty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

1st April 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations disapply regulation 12 of the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982 (which prohibits certain vehicles from using the right hand or off side lane of a motorway carriageway with 3 or more lanes) in relation to the length of the northbound carriageway of the M621 Motorway defined in regulation 2.

(1)

1984 c. 27; section 17 was amended by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22), Schedule 8, paragraph 28 and Schedule 9 and by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), Schedule 4, paragraph 25 and Schedule 8.

(2)

S.I. 1982/1163; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/374, 1992/1364 and 1995/158.