Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984

132 Special provisions as to certain Crown roads. E+W+S

(1) In the following provisions of this section, references to a Crown road are references to a Crown road of a description mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b) of section 22 of this Act.

(2) Subject to the following provisions of this section, section 1 of this Act, as applied for the purposes set out in section 22(2) of this Act, shall have effect so as to authorise the making of a traffic regulation order as respects any Crown road, and an order (hereafter in this section also referred to as a “traffic regulation order") may be made under section 22(3) as respects any Crown road.

(3) The consent of the appropriate Crown authority must be given before a traffic regulation order is made by virtue of subsection (2) above as respects a Crown road.

(4) A traffic regulation order made by virtue of subsection (2) above as respects a Crown road shall not apply to vehicles or persons in the public service of the Crown except so far as is expressly provided in the order, and the inclusion of any such express provision in an order not made by the Secretary of State shall require his approval.

(5) If a traffic regulation order is or is to be made by virtue of subsection (2) above as respects a Crown road, the local authority concerned may, after consultation with the appropriate Crown authority, place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, such traffic signs of any type prescribed, or authorised, under section 64 of this Act as the local authority may consider necessary in connection with the order.

The powers conferred by this subsection shall be exercisable subject to and in conformity with any general directions given under section 65(1) of this Act, and any other power conferred by section 65 to give directions to a [F1 highway authority shall include power to give the like directions to the local authority concerned][F1 local roads authority shall include power to give the like directions to them] as respects the Crown road, but after consultation with the appropriate Crown authority.

(6) In this section “local authority concerned”, in relation to a Crown road, means the authority having power to make an order as respects that road under section 1 of this Act as extended by section 22 of this Act and this section.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words “local roads" to “to them" substituted (S.) for words from “highway authority" to “concerned" by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 128(1), Sch. 9 para. 93(42)