18.—(1) Where a National Park authority proposes to make an experimental traffic order it must, not less than one month before it proposes to make the order, consult the persons specified in the second column of the table in Schedule 1 in the cases specified in third column of that table.
(2) The National Park authority must make the documents specified in paragraph (3) available for public inspection—
(a)at the principal offices of the National Park authority during normal office hours, and
(b)at such other places within the National Park, if any, as the National Park authority may think fit, during such hours as it may determine for each place,
from the date on which the National Park authority begins consultation under paragraph (1) until the last day of the experimental scheme of traffic control (if the National Park authority makes the order) or until six weeks after the National Park authority decides not to make the order.
(3) The documents to be made available for inspection are—
(a)a copy of the order as proposed to be made;
(b)a map which clearly shows the location of the roads affected by the proposed order and, if appropriate, the alternative routes available for diverted traffic;
(c)a statement setting out the reasons why the authority proposes to make the order, including its reasons for proceeding by way of experiment;
(d)a statement as to whether the authority intends to consider making a traffic regulation order having the same effect as the experimental traffic order; and
(e)if the proposed order revokes or amends another experimental traffic order, a copy of that other order.
(4) Before deciding whether to make an experimental traffic order, the National Park authority must take account of any representations received from persons consulted under paragraph (1).
(5) Regulation 14 (notice of making) applies in relation to an experimental traffic order, with the modifications that–
(a)in paragraphs (1)(b) and (2), the references to any person who made representations under regulation 7 are to be treated as references to any person consulted under regulation 18(1) who made representations; and
(b)in paragraphs (4) and (5), the references to regulation 6 are to be treated as references to regulation 18(2) and (3).
(6) No provision of an experimental traffic order shall come into force until the expiry of seven days after a notice under regulation 14(1)(a) is published in relation to the order.
(7) Regulation 15 (traffic signs) applies in relation to an experimental traffic order.
(8) Where an experimental traffic order is modified in accordance with section 10(2) of the 1984 Act, a statement of the effect of each such modification must, as soon as practicable after the modification is made, be included with the documents available for inspection in accordance with regulation 6.