The Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021

Amendment of the Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019

2.—(1) The Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (2) of article 3 (restricted access to local roads in Kent), for the text after the definition of “operator’s licence” to the end, substitute—

““the relevant class of road” means all roads in Kent(2) for which National Highways Limited(3), Kent County Council or Medway Council is the traffic authority under section 121A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(4) other than—

(a)

the A2070 link road from its junction with the A2070 (Bad Munstereifel Road) to Junction 10a of the M20 Motorway;

(b)

the A20 between Greater London’s boundary with Kent (adjacent to the point where the B2173 joins the London-bound carriageway of the A20) and the beginning of the M20 Motorway (Junction 1 near Swanley);

(c)

the A249 between Stockbury Roundabout (Junction 5 of the M2 Motorway) and Newnham Court Roundabout (Junction 7 of the M20 Motorway);

(d)

the A2 between Greater London’s boundary with Kent (approximately 300 metres west of the exit slip road from the coastbound carriageway of the A2 to Old Bexley Lane) and the beginning of the M2 Motorway (Junction 1 near Strood); and

(e)

the A20 between the end of the M20 Motorway (Junction 13) and the end of the A20 (Eastern Docks Roundabout).”.

(1)

S.I. 2019/1394, as amended by S.I. 2020/1155 and S.I. 2021/988.

(2)

Orders made under section 20 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 cannot apply to special roads (section 20(3)). Special roads in Kent include the M2, M20, M25 and M26 Motorways.

(3)

Company number 09346363.

(4)

Section 121A was inserted by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22), section 168(1) and Schedule 8, paragraph 70, and amended by the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), section 1(6) and Schedule 1, paragraph 95, to provide for a strategic highways company (i.e. National Highways) to be a traffic authority. There are other amendments but none is relevant.