The Greater London Highways and Road Traffic (Various Provisions) Order 2000

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Greater London Highways and Road Traffic (Various Provisions) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 3rd July 2000.

Town and Country Planning Act 1990 Part X—transitional provision

2.—(1) This article applies where an application requesting the Secretary of State to make an order under section 247, 248 or 249 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990(1) is received by him before 3rd July 2000.

(2) Where this article applies, Part X of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 shall apply in relation to any order requested by the application to be made, as if the amendments made to that Part by Schedule 22 to the Greater London Authority Act 1999 had not been made and the Secretary of State may accordingly continue to deal with the application until—

(a) he makes an order, or decides not to make an order, in pursuance of it; or

(b) the application is withdrawn.

Procedure for the making of traffic orders by Transport for London

3.—(1) Schedule 9 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(2) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 20(1) (consultation with the chief officer of police)—

(a) for “a local authority make” there shall be substituted “making”;

(b) for “they” there shall be substituted “a local authority or Transport for London”;

(c) after “Part II of this Schedule” there shall be inserted “or any other provision of this Act”;

(d) after “the authority” there shall be inserted “or, as the case may be, Transport for London”.

(3) In paragraph 23(1) (procedure for orders made by a London borough council or the Common Council of the City of London—

(a) after “Common Council of the City of London” there shall be inserted “or Transport for London”;

(b) after “that council” in both places where those words occur there shall be inserted “or Transport for London”.

(4) The amendments to the Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) Regulations 1996(3) in Schedule 1 to this Order shall have effect.

Areas not to be included in a special parking area

4.  The areas in the City of Westminster comprised of the roads specified in Schedule 2 to this Order are hereby specified for the purposes of section 76A(3)(a) of the Road Traffic Act 1991 (areas not to be brought within a special parking area).

Amendment of the Road Traffic (Parking Adjudicators) (London) Regulations 1993

5.—(1) The Road Traffic (Parking Adjudicators) (London) Regulations 1993(4) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2 for the definition of “local authority” there shall be substituted—

• ““local authority” (except in regulation 3) means—

  (a)

  in a case where Transport for London made the disputed decisions, Transport for London;

  (b)

  in any other case, the London authority which made the disputed decision;”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Keith Hill

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

9th June 2000