The Silvertown Tunnel Order 2018

Byelaws relating to the Silvertown Tunnel area and the Blackwall Tunnel area

48.—(1) TfL may make byelaws regulating—

(a) the efficient management and operation of the tunnels areas;

(b) travel in the tunnels areas;

(c) the maintenance of order in the tunnels areas; and

(d) the conduct of persons in the tunnels areas.

(2) The byelaws contained in Schedule 9 (Blackwall and Silvertown Tunnels byelaws)—

(a) are to be treated as byelaws made by TfL under paragraph (1) and subsequently confirmed by the Secretary of State on the date this Order comes into force;

(b) take effect on the date this article applies to the Blackwall Tunnel area or the Silvertown Tunnel area, as the case may be, by virtue of article 39 (application of Part 4); and

(c) continue to have effect in relation to the Blackwall Tunnel area and the Silvertown Tunnel area until such time as they are amended or revoked by further byelaws made under paragraph (1).

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the provisions of subsections 236(3) to (8), (10C) and (11) of the Local Government Act 1972(1) (procedure etc., for byelaws) apply in relation to byelaws made by TfL under paragraph (1), except that the application of section 236(10C) only requires TfL to send a copy of any byelaws made by it and subsequently confirmed to—

(a) the Mayor of London;

(b) the Council of the London Borough of Newham;

(c) the Council of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets; and

(d) the Council of the Royal Borough of Greenwich.

(4) TfL may make byelaws under paragraph (1) in accordance with the procedure in the Byelaws (Alternative Procedure) (England) Regulations 2016(2) as if those regulations applied to the making and revoking of byelaws under this article.

(5) Byelaws made under this article are enforceable by TfL and any authorised person.

(6) A person who breaches any byelaw made under this article commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

(7) The Blackwall Tunnel By-laws 1968 are revoked as from the date of the commencement of construction of the Silvertown Tunnel.

(1)

1972 c. 70. Section 236 was amended by section 76 and 166 of the 1999 Act and S.I. 2001/3719; there are other amendments to section 236 but none are relevant

(2)

S.I. 2016/165.