The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority Order 2023

Traffic regulation E+W

17.—(1) The functions of the constituent councils as local traffic authorities specified in the following provisions of the 1984 Act are exercisable by the Combined Authority in relation to the Area—

(a) section 1 (traffic regulation orders outside Greater London)(1);

(b) section 2 (what a traffic regulation order may provide)(2);

(c) section 9 (experimental traffic orders)(3).

(2) The functions specified in paragraph (1) are exercisable by the Combined Authority concurrently with the constituent councils.

(3) Part 1 of, and Schedule 9 to, the 1984 Act apply in relation to the exercise by the Combined Authority of the functions specified in paragraph (1) as they apply in relation to the exercise by the constituent councils as local traffic authorities of those functions.

(4) The 1996 Regulations apply in relation to orders made or proposed to be made by the Combined Authority in exercise of the functions specified in paragraph (1) as they apply in relation to orders made or proposed to be made by the constituent councils in exercise of those functions.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), references in the 1996 Regulations to an “order making authority” are to be read as including references to the Combined Authority.

(6) In this article—

(a) “the 1996 Regulations” means the Local Authorities’ Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996(4); and

(b) “local traffic authority” has the meaning given by section 121A(5) of the 1984 Act.

(7) Any exercise of the functions conferred by paragraph (1) requires the consent of each constituent council in whose area it is proposed that the functions are to be exercised.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 17 in force at 20.12.2023, see art. 1(2)

(1)

Section 1 was amended by paragraph 17 of Schedule 8 to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22), paragraph 36 of Schedule 22 to the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), paragraph 7 of Schedule 11 to the Transport Act 2000 (c. 38), section 45 of the Local Transport Act 2008, and paragraph 71 of Schedule 1 to the Infrastructure Act 2015.

(2)

Subsection (4) was amended by paragraph 18 of Schedule 8 to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.

(3)

Section 9 was amended by paragraph 23 of Schedule 8 to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, paragraph 24 of Schedule 4 to the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), paragraph 4 of the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51), and paragraph 74 of Schedule 1 to the Infrastructure Act 2015.

(4)

S.I. 1996/2489.

(5)

Section 121A was inserted by paragraph 70 of Schedule 8 to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991. It was subsequently amended by section 271 of the 1999 Act, paragraph 95 of Schedule 1 to the Infrastructure Act 2015, and S.I. 1999/1820 and S.I. 2001/1400.