Part IV Improvements and Maintenance
F2Equipment for detection of traffic offences
55 Provision of picnic sites for trunk roads etc.
1
The Secretary of State may provide on land adjoining, or in the vicinity of, a trunk road, or a proposed public road which is to be a trunk road, a picnic site with space for parking vehicles and with means of access from and egress to the road or proposed road; and subject to subsection (3) below he may manage and maintain the site (including such buildings, works or facilities as are mentioned in subsection (2) below.)
2
The Secretary of State may erect and equip buildings, and execute works, on the picnic site so as to provide such facilities as he considers appropriate for that site; and without prejudice to the generality of this subsection those facilities may include—
a
water closets, urinals, and washing facilities for use in connection with either; and
b
facilities for the provision and consumption of meals and refreshments.
3
The Secretary of State shall not provide meals or refreshments on the picnic site but may make arrangements for some person other than a F1local authority so to provide and may for the purpose of those arrangements lease the site, or a part thereof, to that other person.
S. 49A and preceding cross-heading inserted (1.7.1992) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107:1), s. 40(2); S.I. 1992/1286, art. 2, Sch