{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a122-lower-thames-crossing-development-consent-order-2025/schedule-13/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a122-lower-thames-crossing-development-consent-order-2025/schedule-13/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/462",
  "legislation_title": "The A122 (Lower Thames Crossing) Development Consent Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a122-lower-thames-crossing-development-consent-order-2025",
  "path": "schedule/13/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Traffic regulation",
  "text": "(1) A person must not enter the tunnel area on foot without authorisation.\n(2) A person must not use or cause to be used within the tunnel area—\n(a) a pedal cycle (whether electric or not), tricycle, barrow, cart, buggy, pedicab, rickshaw, vehicle used as a personal transporter, or human or animal drawn means of conveyance except if it is conveyed as the load or part of the load of a motor vehicle;\n(b) a motor vehicle with a load unless the load carried by the motor vehicle is at all times contained or secured (if necessary by physical restraint other than its own weight) and is in such a position that neither danger nor nuisance is caused or is likely to be caused to a person or property by reason of the load or any part of the load falling or being thrown from the motor vehicle;\n(c) a motor vehicle which—\n(i) has insufficient fuel or power for the journey to be completed in the tunnel area without the need for additional fuel or power; or\n(ii) by reason of its condition is likely to break down or is in such condition as is likely to injure persons or damage property.\n(3) A person must not—\n(a) take into the tunnel area an animal unless the animal is enclosed in a motor vehicle or trailer; or\n(b) release any animal from a motor vehicle or trailer in the tunnel area.\n(4) A person must not abandon a motor vehicle in the tunnel area except in an emergency as directed by an authorised person.\n(5) A driver of a motor vehicle must not drive in the tunnel area at a speed of less than ten miles per hour except where the driver is prevented from driving at or above ten miles per hour on account of the traffic flow.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 13 para. 4 in force at 15.4.2025, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/462/schedule/13/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:17:22.632908+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}