{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a13-trunk-road-tower-hamlets-bus-lanes-traffic-order-1994/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a13-trunk-road-tower-hamlets-bus-lanes-traffic-order-1994/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2887",
  "legislation_title": "The A13 Trunk Road (Tower Hamlets) (Bus Lanes) Traffic Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a13-trunk-road-tower-hamlets-bus-lanes-traffic-order-1994",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Exemptions relating to classes of vehicles and vehicles being used for certain purposes",
  "text": "(1) Article 5 does not apply to–\n(a) a public service vehicle used in the provision of a local service or a scheduled express service;\n(b) a school bus or a works bus;\n(c) any other vehicle constructed or adapted to carry more than 11 passengers;\n(d) a pedal cycle;\n(e) a licensed cab;\n(f) a vehicle being used for ambulance, fire brigade or police purposes if the observance of any provision of this Order would hinder the use of the vehicle for the purpose for which it is being used on that occasion;\n(g) a vehicle being used in the service of a local authority for the purpose of collecting refuse from premises adjacent to a bus lane.\n(2) Article 5 does not apply to a vehicle being used in connection with–\n(a) any building operation or demolition;\n(b) the removal of any obstruction to traffic;\n(c) the maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of any road;\n(d) the laying, erection, alteration or repair of any sewer or of any main, pipe or apparatus for the supply of gas, water or electricity or of any telecommunications apparatus as defined in Schedule 2 to the Telecommunications Act 1984 in or near any road; or\n(e) the placing, maintenance or removal of any traffic sign;\nprovided that in all the circumstances it is necessary for the vehicle to enter a bus lane.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2017/1011",
      "affecting_title": "The Communications Act 2003 and the Digital Economy Act 2017 (Consequential Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2017"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2887/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:23:25.667069+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."
}