The London Underground (Bank Station Capacity Upgrade) Order 2015

Traffic signs

33.—(1) The Company may, for the purposes of the authorised works, place or maintain traffic signs of a type prescribed by regulations made under section 64(1)(a) (general provisions as to traffic signs) of the 1984 Act or of a character authorised by the Secretary of State on any street within the Order limits or which gives access to such a street, or on any street in connection with any instrument made under article 32 (traffic regulation) or any other street as reasonably required for conveying information to traffic.

(2) The Company—

(a) must consult with the traffic authority as to the placing of signs; and

(b) may subject to any directions given under section 65 (powers and duties of highway authorities as to placing of traffic signs) of the 1984 Act, enter into arrangements with the consent of the traffic authority for the signs to be placed and maintained by the traffic authority, such consent not to be unreasonable withheld.

(3) Any power conferred by section 65 of the 1984 Act to give directions to a traffic authority or local traffic authority as to traffic signs includes a power to give directions to the Company as to traffic signs under this article; and the powers conferred by paragraph (1) are exercisable subject to and in conformity with any directions given under that section.

(4) A traffic authority or other authority having power under or by virtue of the 1984 Act to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, traffic signs on any street referred to in paragraph (1) must consult with the Company as to the placing of any traffic signs that appear to the traffic authority may affect the authorised works.

(5) Expressions used in this article and in the 1984 Act have the same meaning in this article as in that Act.