The Railtrack (Shortlands Junction) Order 2001

Traffic restrictions

12.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this article Railtrack may during and for the purposes of the authorised works from the commencement of this Order and with the consent of the traffic authority in whose area the relevant street is situated (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld)—

(a) prohibit or restrict the parking, stopping, waiting or the loading or unloading of vehicles, at any time, in the relevant streets;

(b) revoke any traffic regulation order in so far as it is inconsistent with any prohibition or restriction made by Railtrack under this paragraph.

(2) Railtrack shall not exercise the powers of this article unless it has—

(a) given not less than 2 weeks' notice in writing of its intention to do so to the chief officer of police and the traffic authority in whose area the relevant streets are situated, and

(b) for a period of not less than 2 weeks displayed a notice of its intention to do so at, or as near as possible to, the relevant streets.

(3) Any prohibition or restriction made by Railtrack under paragraph (1) above shall have effect as if duly made by the traffic authority in whose area the relevant street is situated as a traffic regulation order under the 1984 Act.

(4) Any prohibition or restriction made by Railtrack under paragraph (1) above shall not apply to any vehicle of a statutory utility for so long as it is engaged in connection with the laying, erection, alteration, repair or inspection of any apparatus of that utility.

(5) In this article—

“the relevant streets” means the carriageway of the streets shown numbered 19 and 20 on the deposited plans as widened in accordance with article 11 above; and

“statutory utility” means a statutory undertaker for the purposes of the Highways Act 1980 or a public telecommunications operator as defined in paragraph 1(6) of Schedule 4 to this Order.