14.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation, an authority may, notwithstanding that the requirements of regulation 5 or 11 have been completed, modify a proposed designation or use order or speed order, whether in consequence of any objections or otherwise, before it is made.
(2) Before a proposed designation or use order or speed order is made with modifications which appear to the authority to make a substantial change in it, the authority shall take the steps required by paragraph (3).
(3) The steps are such steps as appear to the authority appropriate for—
(a)informing persons likely to be affected by the modifications;
(b)giving those persons an opportunity of making objections; and
(c)ensuring that any such objections are duly considered by the authority.
(4) In this regulation “modifications” includes additions, exceptions or any other modification of any description and “modify” shall be construed accordingly.