Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980

[F1 157B Traffic regulation orders for private streets. E+W

(1) Where—

(a) an urban development corporation submits to the Secretary of State that an order under this section should be made in relation to any road in the urban development area which is a private street; and

(b) it appears to the Secretary of State that the traffic authority do not intend to make an order under section 1 or, as the case may be, section 6 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (orders concerning traffic regulation) in relation to the road,

the Secretary of State may by order under this section make in relation to the road any such provision as he might have made by order under that section if he had been the traffic authority.

(2) The Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 applies to an order under this section as it applies to an order made by the Secretary of State under section 1 or, as the case may be, section 6 of that Act in relation to a road for which he is the traffic authority.

(3) In this section—

• “private street” has the same meaning as in Part XI of the Highways Act 1980;

• “road” and “traffic authority” have the same meanings as in the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.

(4) This section does not extend to Scotland.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 157, 157A, 157B substituted (11.10.1993) for s. 157 by 1993 c. 28, s.178; S.I. 1993/2134, art. 4(b) (with Sch. 1 para. 8)