Roads (Scotland) Act 1984

The Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (c. 45) S

87 (1) ) The Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 shall be amended with this paragraph. S

(2) In section 19(5) (restriction on power to appoint taxi stance)—

(a) for the words “highway authority (within the meaning of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1970)” there shall be substituted the words “roads authority”;

(b) for the “highway”, where it occurs for the second time, there shall be substituted the word “road”; and

(c) the words “being a highway” shall cease to have effect.

(3) In section 48(4)

(interpretation of provisions relating to fouling of pavements by dogs), for the words “meanings respectively assigned to them by section 50(1) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1970” there shall be substituted the words “same meanings as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984”.

(4) In section 54(3)(e) (non-application of provisions relating to annoyance caused by playing instruments etc.), for the word “highway” there shall be substituted the word “road”.

(5) In the proviso to section 96(1) (restriction on exercise of certain powers as regards statutes and monuments), for head (ii) there shall be substituted the following head—

“(ii) where such land is a road, the roads authority,”

(6) In section 125(1) (interference with dustbins etc.) for the word “highway” there shall be substituted the word “road”.

(7) In section 128(2) (control of stray dogs), for the word “highways” there shall be substituted the words “in roads”.

(8) In section 133 (interpretation), after the definition of “public place” there shall be inserted the following definitions—

““public road”, “road” and “roads authority” have the same meanings as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;”.