The M11 Motorway (Junctions 8 to 9) (Offside Lane Restriction) Regulations 2019

Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 1428

Road Traffic

Special Roads

The M11 Motorway (Junctions 8 to 9) (Offside Lane Restriction) Regulations 2019

Made

30th October 2019

Laid before Parliament

31st October 2019

Coming into force

25th November 2019

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17(2) and (3) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1).

Representative organisations have been consulted in accordance with section 134(2) of that Act.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the M11 Motorway (Junctions 8 to 9) (Offside Lane Restriction) Regulations 2019 and come into force on 25th November 2019.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“the 1982 Regulations” means the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982(2);

“carriageway” and “motorway” have the same meaning as in the 1982 Regulations;

“M11” means the M11 motorway between junctions 8 and 9; and

“the specified roads” means—

(a)

the northbound carriageway of the M11 from the point which is 660 metres south of the centre of Chestnut Avenue Underbridge to the point which is 848 metres north of the centre of Strethall Road Overbridge; and

(b)

the southbound carriageway of the M11 from the point which is 1283 metres north of the centre of Strethall Road Overbridge to the point which is 60 metres north of the centre of Littlebury Green Overbridge.

Lane restriction

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) no heavy commercial vehicle shall, between 7.00 hours and 19.00 hours on any day, be driven or moved or stop or remain at rest on the right hand or offside lane of the carriageway of the specified roads where both lanes are open for use by traffic proceeding in the same direction.

(2) Nothing in paragraph (1)—

(a) has effect so as to require a vehicle to change lane during a period when it would not be reasonably practicable for it to do so without involving danger of injury to any person or inconvenience to other traffic; or

(b) precludes any person from using the specified roads in any of the circumstances set out in regulation 16(1) of the 1982 Regulations.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Vere

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

30th October 2019

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations prohibit the daytime use by heavy commercial vehicles of the offside lane of the both carriageways of the M11 motorway between junctions 8 and 9.

Contravention of these regulations is an offence under section 17(4) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.

A full impact assessment of the effect that these Regulations will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available from the Department for Transport, Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Road, London SW1P 4DR. The impact assessment and an Explanatory Memorandum are published alongside the Regulations at www.legislation.gov.uk.

(1)

1984 c.27; section 17(2) was amended by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c.22), Schedule 8, Part 2, paragraph 28(3); section 17(2)(b) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40), Schedule 8; section 17(2)(d) was inserted by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40), Schedule 4, paragraph 25. There are other amendments to sections 17 and 134 which are not relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

S.I. 1982/1163, relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1984/1479, 1992/1364.