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3.—(1) In relation to the specified roads the 1982 Regulations have effect as if they were modified as follows.
(2) Paragraph (1) of regulation 3 (interpretation) has effect as if—
(a)after sub-paragraph (c) there were inserted—
“(ca)“emergency refuge area” means a part of a motorway—
(i)which is adjacent to and situated on the left-hand or near side of the hard shoulder or carriageway when facing in the direction in which, in accordance with regulation 6, vehicles may be driven, and
(ii)whose boundary with the hard shoulder or carriageway is indicated by a marking of the type shown in diagram 1010 in Schedule 6 to the Traffic Signs Regulations 2002;”;
(b)in sub-paragraph (g) after “hard shoulder”, there were inserted “an emergency refuge area,”;
(c)in regulation 7 (restrictions on stopping), paragraph (2) has effect as if at the end, after “carriageway” there were added “or on any emergency refuge area which is adjacent to that carriageway or hard shoulder.”.
(3) Paragraph 3(a) and (b) of regulation 7, regulation 9 (restriction on the use of hard shoulders) and paragraph (b)(i) of regulation 14 (restrictions affecting animals carried by vehicles) have effect as if after “hard shoulder” (in each place) there was inserted “or emergency refuge area”.
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