Pedestrian crossingsE+W+S
23 [ Powers of strategic highways companies and local traffic authorities with respect to pedestrian crossings]E+W+S
[( 1 )A [strategic highways company or a] local traffic authority may establish crossings for pedestrians on roads for which they are the traffic authority, and may alter or remove any such crossings.
The crossings shall be indicated in the manner prescribed by regulations under section 25 of this Act.]
(2)Before establishing, altering, or removing a crossing a [strategic highways company or a] [local traffic authority]—
(a)shall consult the chief officer of police about their proposal to do so; [and]
(b)shall give public notice of that proposal; ...
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(3)It shall be the duty of a [strategic highways company or a ] [local traffic authority] to execute any works (including the placing, erection, maintenance, alteration and removal of marks and traffic signs) required—
(a)in connection with the establishment, alteration or removal of crossings in accordance with regulations having effect under section 25 of this Act, or
(b)in connection with the indication of crossings in accordance with such regulations.
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24 Pedestrian crossings on [other] roads.E+W+S
[The [national authority] shall establish on roads for which [ the national authority] is the traffic authority such crossings] for pedestrians as [ the national authority] considers necessary, [and execute] any works (including the placing, erection, maintenance, alteration and removal of marks and traffic signs) required in connection with the establishment of those crossings.
25 Pedestrian crossing regulations.E+W+S
(1)The [national authority] may make regulations with respect to the precedence of vehicles and pedestrians respectively, and generally with respect to the movement of traffic (including pedestrians), at and in the vicinity of crossings.
(2)Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) above, regulations under that subsection may be made—
(a)prohibiting pedestrian traffic on the carriageway within 100 yards of a crossing, and
(b)with respect to the indication of the limits of a crossing, or of any other matter whatsoever relating to the crossing, by marks or devices on or near the roadway or otherwise, and generally with respect to the erection of traffic signs in connection with a crossing.
(3)Different regulations may be made under this section in relation to different traffic conditions, and in particular (but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing words) different regulations may be made in relation to crossings in the vicinity of, and at a distance from, a junction of roads, and in relation to traffic which is controlled by the police, and by traffic signals, and by different kinds of traffic signals, and traffic which is not controlled.
(4)Regulations may be made under this section applying only to a particular crossing or particular crossings specified in the regulations.
(5)A person who contravenes any regulations made under this section shall be guilty of an offence.
(6)In this section “crossing” means a crossing for pedestrians established—
(a)by a local authority under section 23 of this Act, or
(b)by the [national authority] in the discharge of the duty imposed on [the national authority] by section 24 of this Act,
and (in either case) indicated in accordance with the regulations having effect as respects that crossing; and, for the purposes of a prosecution for a contravention of the provisions of a regulation having effect as respects a crossing, the crossing shall be deemed to be so established and indicated unless the contrary is proved.
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