SCHEDULE 19BUS STOP AND BUS STAND CLEARWAYS AND BOX JUNCTIONS

PART ISIGNIFICANCE OF BUS STOP AND BUS STAND CLEARWAY MARKINGS

Other exceptions4

1

Nothing in paragraph 2 applies in relation to—

a

a vehicle being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes;

b

anything done with the permission or at the direction of—

i

a constable in uniform;

ii

a traffic warden; or

iii

where the clearway is in a special parking area designated under Part II of the Road Traffic Act 1991 or Schedule 3 to that Act, a parking attendant appointed under section 63A of the 1984 Act41;

c

a vehicle which is prevented from proceeding by circumstances beyond the driver’s control or which has to be stopped in order to avoid injury or damage to persons or property;

d

a taxi which is stationary only for so long as may be reasonably necessary for a passenger to board or alight and to load or unload any luggage of the passenger;

e

a marked vehicle which, whilst used by a universal service provider in the course of the provision of a universal postal service, is stationary only for so long as may be reasonably necessary for postal packets to be collected;

f

a vehicle driven by a person whilst being trained to drive a bus operating local services who, as part of his training, stops the vehicle within a clearway for no longer than necessary to simulate the stopping of a bus at a bus stop for the purpose of picking up and setting down passengers;

g

a vehicle which is stationary in order that it may be used for one or more of the purposes specified in paragraph 5 and which cannot be used for such a purpose without stopping in the clearway.

2

In sub-paragraph (1)(e) the expressions “universal service provider”, “provision of a universal postal service” and “postal packet” shall bear the same meanings as in the Postal Services Act 200042.