The Local Roads Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 1987

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations lay down the procedure to be followed by local roads authorities in Scotland in connection with the making by them of the main types of traffic and parking place orders under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and under section 36B of the Road Traffic Act 1972.

Regulation 3 specifies the orders to which the Regulations apply. These include traffic regulation orders, experimental traffic orders, orders relating to the use of roads by public service vehicles, street playground orders, orders relating to parking places both on and off the road (including bus station and parking meter orders), orders relating to speed limits and orders for exempting roads from the prohibition of the parking of vehicles on verges, central reservations and footways.

Regulations 4 to 13 lay down the procedure to be followed before the order is made. They provide for preliminary consultations (regulation 4), publication of proposals (regulation 5), objections to the order (regulations 6 and 11), public hearings (regulations 7 to 9), the modification of proposals (regulation 12) and for certain cases where the Secretary of State’s consent is required or where the Secretary of State has to be notified of the local roads authority’s proposals (regulations 10 and 13).

Regulations 14 and 15 contain certain requirements about the order itself, in particular about the use of a map to illustrate the order and about the operative date of the order.

Provisions as to the giving notice of the making of the order are contained in regulation 16.

Certain of the above requirements are modified in relation to consolidation orders, some experimental traffic orders and certain variation orders by regulations 17 to 19.

Schedules 1 to 3 contain particulars of the details to be included in the press notice of an order, of the requirements as to the display of an order in the road itself, and of the requirements about making documents relating to an order available for public inspection. Schedule 4 lists the documents which must accompany an application for the Secretary of State’s consent. Schedule 5 relates specified unladen weights to corresponding maximum gross weights of vehicles.