The Bus Lanes (Approved Devices) (England) Order 2005

Article 2(b)

THE SCHEDULE THE SPECIFIED CRITERIA

1.  In this Schedule “the equipment” means equipment comprising a device.

2.  The equipment includes a camera which is—

(a) securely mounted on a bus or other vehicle or at the roadside or on a building, structure or other erection;

(b) so mounted in a position that will enable vehicles in a bus lane or selected area of bus lane to be surveyed by it;

(c) capable of producing—

(i) a close-up legible image of the registration plate of any vehicle in the bus lane or, as the case may be, the selected area ; and

(ii) a wider angle image of the carriageway such as will enable information to be provided about any circumstances which may have caused the vehicle to be in the bus lane or the selected area; and

(d) connected by secure data links to a recording system.

3.  The equipment includes a recording system in which—

(a) recordings are made automatically of the output from the camera or cameras surveying the bus lane or selected area;

(b) recordings are made—

(i) using videotape which records at a minimum rate of 5 frames per second; or

(ii) using a secure digital recording method which records at a minimum of 5 frames per second.

(c) each frame is timed (in hours, minutes and seconds), dated and sequentially numbered automatically, using a visual counter which resets to zero when the recording system is initially activated and increments for each frame;

(d) the location of the bus lane or selected area being surveyed is shown; and

(e) where any part of the equipment is controlled manually, two simultaneous recordings are made of the camera output viewed by the operator.

4.  The equipment is—

(a) synchronised with the “Rugby” atomic clock or another independent national standard clock; and

(b) accurate within plus or minus 10 seconds over a 14-day period and is re-synchronised at least once during that period.

5.  Where the equipment includes a facility to print a still image—

(a) of any frame recorded on the videotape; or

(b) from a digital record,

any printed image is endorsed with the time and date when the frame was captured and its unique number.

6.  Where the equipment includes a facility for simultaneous voice-over recording, it incorporates a time mark from the clock with which the recording system is synchronised, denoting contemporaneous recording with the vision track.