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Article 4 Restrictions on vehicles stopping or remaining at rest

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(1)

No person shall cause or permit a vehicle to stop or remain at rest during the prescribed hours in any length of road specified in Schedule 1.

(2)

Paragraph (1) does not apply to any length of road specified in Part I of Schedule 2.

(3)

Paragraph (1) does not prohibit a person from causing or permitting a vehicle to wait during the prescribed hours–

(a)

in any length of road specified in Part II of Schedule 2 for a period of up to 2 hours not being a period separated by an interval of less than 2 hours from a previous period when that vehicle was at rest in that length of road;

(b)

in any length of road specified in Part III of Schedule 2 for a period of up to 20 minutes not being a period separated by an interval of less than 40 minutes from a previous period when that vehicle was at rest in that length of road; or

(c)

in any length of road specified in Schedule 3 for the purpose of delivering or collecting goods or loading or unloading the vehicle–

(i)

for so long as may be necessary for that purpose, or

(ii)

a period of 20 minutes,

whichever is the less.

(4)

In this article, “prescribed hours”, in relation to a length of road specified in a Part of a Schedule shown in an item in column (3) of the Table below means a period shown in that item in column (2) of that Table.

TABLE

(1)(2)(3)
ItemPrescribed hoursProvision
10800 hours to 1900 hours on Mondays to Fridays inclusive.Schedule 1
Schedule 2, Part II
21000 hours to 1600 hours on Mondays to Fridays inclusive.Schedule 2, Part III
Schedule 3