The Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996

Regulation 21(1)

SCHEDULE 4 MINOR ORDERS

PART I EFFECTS OF A MINOR ORDER

1.  The postponement for a period of not more than 6 months of the coming into force of any provision of an existing order.

2.  The variation of an order so that it includes exemptions in respect of disabled persons' vehicles in accordance with regulation 4 of the Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Exemptions for Disabled Persons) (England and Wales) Regulations 1986(1).

3.  The variation of an order so as to confer on a traffic warden functions similar to those conferred by the order on a constable.

4.  The variation of an order so as to substitute a prohibition or restriction on the use of vehicles having a maximum gross weight of 17 tonnes for an identical prohibition or restriction on the use of vehicles having a maximum gross weight of 16.5 tonnes.

5.  The variation of an order by substituting, for any reference to a vehicle adapted to carry 12 passengers or to a vehicle adapted to carry more than 12 passengers, a reference to a vehicle adapted to carry more than 8 passengers.

6.  The variation of a provision in an order—

(a) prohibiting or restricting the waiting or the loading or unloading of vehicles, or

(b) authorising the use of any part of a road as a parking place,

in so far as the variation is necessary to make the order compatible with any regulations made under section 25 of the 1984 Act.

7.  The variation of an order to the extent appearing to the order making authority necessary or expedient as a consequence of the coming into force of—

(a) a designation order made under section 76(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1991 (special parking areas in London); or

(b) a designation order made under Schedule 3 to that Act (permitted or special parking areas outside London).

8.  The revocation or variation of a provision included in an order under section 35(1)(iv), 46(2)(e) or 53(3) of the 1984 Act authorising a person to remove or arrange for the removal of a vehicle from a parking place.

9.  The variation of a provision included in an order under section 35 or 46(2) regulating the method, or requiring the use of apparatus, by which any charges for the use of a parking place are to be paid.

10.  The prohibition of, or the revocation or variation of a provision in an order whose sole effect is to prohibit, the riding of cycles or mopeds on a footbridge, in a pedestrian subway or on the approaches to such a bridge or subway.

PART II INTERPRETATION

11.  In this Schedule—

“cycle” means a pedal cycle which is not a motor vehicle;

“excess charge” in relation to an on-street parking place has the same meaning as in section 46 of the 1984 Act and, in relation to an off-street parking place, means any sum payable as a result of a vehicle remaining parked beyond the period for which payment has been made;

“maximum gross weight” has the same meaning as in the Traffic Signs Regulations 1994(2); and

“moped” has the meaning given by paragraph 5 of Schedule 9 to the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986(3).

(1)

S.I. 1986/1078, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

Part I of S.I. 1994/1519.

(3)

S.I. 1986/1078, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.