The A3 Trunk Road (Wandsworth High Street, Wandsworth) (Box Junction) Order 1992

Statutory Instruments

1992 No. 2455

ROAD TRAFFIC

The A3 Trunk Road (Wandsworth High Street, Wandsworth) (Box Junction) Order 1992

Made

12th October 1992

Coming into force

19th October 1992

The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6(1) and (3), and 7(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1), and of all other enabling powers, and after consulting the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis pursuant to section 7(6) of that Act(2), hereby makes the following Order:

1.  This Order may be cited as the A3 Trunk Road (Wandsworth High Street, Wandsworth) (Box Junction) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 19th October 1992.

2.  In this Order—

“boxed area” means the area of the carriageway of the trunk road specified in the Schedule to this Order, being an area of the said carriageway which is marked by the traffic sign specified in diagram 1043 in the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 1981(3); and

“the trunk road” means that part of the A3 Trunk Road in the London Borough of Wandsworth known as Wandsworth High Street.

3.  Save as provided in article 4 below, no person shall cause or permit any vehicle to enter the boxed area if it would become necessary for the whole or any part of the vehicle to remain stationary within that area due to the presence of other stationary vehicles.

4.  The provisions of article 3 above shall not apply—

(a) in respect of a vehicle being used for police, fire brigade or ambulance purposes;

(b) to anything done with the permission or at the direction of a police constable in uniform or of a traffic warden;

(c) so as to render it unlawful to cause or permit the whole, or any part of a vehicle to remain stationary in the boxed area while waiting to complete a right turn for so long as the vehicle is prevented from completing that turn by reason of the presence of other stationary vehicles, waiting in or near that area to complete a right turn; or

(d) so as to render it unlawful to cause or permit the whole, or any part of a vehicle to remain stationary in the boxed area if, when the whole or any part of the vehicle entered that area, the person so causing or permitting had reason to believe that he would immediately be able to cause or permit the vehicle to be driven out of that area.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

I. E. W. Brown

A Grade 6 Officer London Regional Office of the

Department of Transport

12th October 1992

(Article 2)

SCHEDULE

The area of the trunk road marked with the traffic sign referred to in article 2 above which is in the trunk road at the junction of Wandsworth High Street, Garratt Lane and Ram Street.

(1)

1984 c. 27; section 6(1) was amended by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22), section 168 and Schedule 8, paragraph 21(2).

(2)

Section 7(6) was amended by paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 to the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40).

(3)

S.I. 1981/859, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.