[F1 Restricted access to M2 Motorway between Junctions 5 and 7 E+W+S

2.— (1) During a traffic restriction period, a relevant vehicle must not be used on the relevant length of carriageway unless—

(a) the vehicle is being used on the relevant length of carriageway—

(i) at the direction, or with the permission, of a specified person or an examiner appointed under section 66A of the Road Traffic Act 1988; or

(ii) in compliance with a direction displayed on a traffic sign placed on or near a road;

(b) the vehicle is being driven on the relevant length of carriageway to collect goods from, or deliver goods to, premises in Kent and the driver, when requested by a specified person, provides information sufficient to satisfy the specified person that the vehicle is being driven on that road solely for the purpose of proceeding to or from such premises; or

(c) the vehicle is normally kept at an operating centre in East Kent and the driver of the vehicle, when requested by a specified person, produces an operator’s licence and a valid local haulier permit, which both bear the address of that operating centre.

(2) In this article, “the relevant length of carriageway” means the coastbound carriageway of the M2 Motorway between the last point where the exit slip road at Junction 5 (Stockbury Roundabout) leaves the carriageway, as indicated by markings on the road, and the end of that carriageway at Junction 7 (Brenley Corner).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Art. 2 substituted (31.10.2021) by The Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 3) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/973), arts. 1(1), 2(4); S.I. 2021/1206, art. 1(b)