PART IIISPECIAL ROADS

Further provisions with respect to tolls

Restriction of access to toll roads39.

(1)

Where a toll order is in force in relation to a road subject to a concession, no other road shall be so constructed as to afford access to that road except with the consent of the concessionaire.

(2)

Where a toll order is in force in relation to a road, no means of access to that road shall be constructed except with the consent of the Department and, where the road is subject to a concession, of the concessionaire.

(3)

Paragraph (2) does not apply to—

(a)

a means of access afforded by a road;

(b)

a means of access to a weighbridge maintained by the Department underF1 Articles 86 and 87 of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1995; or

(c)

a means of access constructed by or on behalf of a Northern Ireland department or a department of the Government of the United Kingdom which—

(i)

affords access to premises occupied for the purposes of that department; and

(ii)

the department is satisfied is reasonably required for discharging any function of the department.