The Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) Order 1990

New areas

4.—(1) In this Order “reorganisation date” means the date that this article comes into force.

(2) On reorganisation date, the Metropolitan Traffic Area shall be abolished. In accordance with paragraph (5), the greater part of the area which that Area comprises shall become part of the area of the traffic area known at the date of the making of this Order as the South-Eastern Traffic Area and the rest shall become part of the Eastern Traffic Area.

(3) On and after reorganisation date the South-Eastern Traffic Area shall be known as the South-Eastern and Metropolitan Traffic Area.

(4) Notwithstanding the revocation of the 1983 Order, the remaining 8 traffic areas specified in the Schedule to that Order shall continue to exist.

(5) On reorganisation date the limits of those 8 areas shall be those specified in Schedule 1 to this Order and the limits of the following traffic areas—

(a) the North-Western Traffic Area,

(b) the North-Eastern Traffic Area,

(c) the Eastern Traffic Area,

(d) the Western Traffic Area, and

(e) the area known at the date of the making of this Order as the South-Eastern Traffic Area,

shall be altered accordingly.

(6) In this Order—

“transferred area” means an area which immediately before reorganisation date is in one traffic area and after that date, by virtue of this Order, becomes part of another traffic area; and

“new area”, in relation to a transferred area, means the traffic area of which, on and after reorganisation date, the transferred area forms part.