PART 3STREETS
Clearways, prohibitions and restrictions18.
(1)
On and after such day as the undertaker may determine, except as provided in paragraph (4), no person is to cause or permit any vehicle to wait on any part of the lengths of road described in column (2) of Part 7 (traffic regulation measures (clearways and prohibitions)) of Schedule 3 (classification of roads, etc.), except upon the direction of, or with the permission of, a uniformed constable or uniformed traffic officer.
(2)
On and after such day as the undertaker may determine, except as provided in paragraph (4) and (5), no person may cause or permit any vehicle to use any part of the lengths of road described in column (2) of Part 8 (traffic regulation measures (weight restrictions)) of Schedule 3 where that vehicle exceeds the weight restriction specified in column (3) of that Part.
(3)
On and after such day as the undertaker may determine, except as provided in paragraph (4), no person may cause or permit any vehicle to wait on any part of the lengths of road described in column (2) of Part 9 (traffic regulation measures (waiting restrictions)) of Schedule 3 for a period exceeding two hours.
(4)
Nothing in paragraphs (1), (2) or (3) applies—
(a)
to render it unlawful to cause or permit a vehicle to wait on any part of a road, for so long as may be necessary to enable that vehicle to be used in connection with—
(i)
the removal of any obstruction to traffic;
(ii)
the maintenance, improvement, reconstruction or operation of the road;
(iii)
the laying, erection, inspection, maintenance, alteration, repair, renewal or removal in or near the road of any sewer, main pipe, conduit, wire, cable or other apparatus for the supply of gas, water, electricity or any electronic communications apparatus as defined in Schedule 3A (the Electronic Communications Code) to the Communications Act 2003 M1; or
(iv)
any building operation or demolition;
(b)
in relation to a vehicle being used—
(i)
for police, ambulance, fire and rescue authority or traffic officer purposes;
(ii)
in the service of a local authority, safety camera partnership or Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency in pursuance of statutory powers or duties;
(iii)
in the service of a water or sewerage undertaker within the meaning of the Water Industry Act 1991 M2; or
(iv)
by a universal service provider for the purposes of providing a universal postal service as defined by the Postal Service Act 2000 M3; or
(c)
in relation to a vehicle waiting when the person in control of it is—
(i)
required by law to stop;
(ii)
obliged to stop in order to avoid an accident; or
(iii)
prevented from proceeding by circumstances outside the person's control.
(5)
Nothing in paragraph (2) applies in relation to a vehicle being used—
(a)
for the conveyance of goods or merchandise to or from any premises that are reasonably accessible only from the highway to which the restriction in question applies;
(b)
vehicles being used in conjunction with any building operation or demolition on land in or adjacent to the highway to which the restriction applies;
(c)
vehicles being used for the laying, erection, alteration or repair of any apparatus on land adjacent to the highway to which the restriction applies;
(d)
vehicles being used by the emergency services or on behalf of a local authority;
(e)
public service vehicles within the meaning of section 1(1) (definition of public service vehicle) of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 M4.
(6)
No person is to cause or permit any vehicle to wait on any part of the roads described in paragraphs (1) and (3) for the purposes of selling, or dispensing of, goods from that vehicle, unless the goods are immediately delivered at, or taken into, premises adjacent to the land on which the vehicle stood when the goods were sold or dispensed.
(7)
Paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6) have effect as if made by order under the 1984 Act, and their application may be varied or revoked by an order made under that Act or any other enactment which provides for the variation or revocation of such orders.
(8)
In this article, “traffic officer” means an individual designated under section 2 (designation of traffic officers) of the Traffic Management Act 2004 M5.