{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a13-trunk-road-tower-hamlets-red-route-bus-priority-traffic-order-1999/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a13-trunk-road-tower-hamlets-red-route-bus-priority-traffic-order-1999/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3051",
  "legislation_title": "The A13 Trunk Road (Tower Hamlets) Red Route (Bus Priority) Traffic Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a13-trunk-road-tower-hamlets-red-route-bus-priority-traffic-order-1999",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Exemptions—Bus Lanes and Bus-Only Routes",
  "text": "(1) The controls specified in articles 3(1) and 3(2) do not apply in respect of a vehicle being in a bus lane or a bus-only route if the vehicle is being used in—\n(a) the service of a local authority for the purpose of collecting refuse;\n(b) the pursuance of any statutory duty of the Post Office for the purpose of collecting or delivering letters provided the vehicle bears the Royal Mail livery;\n(c) connection with the removal of any obstruction to traffic;\n(d) connection with the maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of any road;\n(e) connection with the maintenance, improvement or construction of any street furniture including bus stop infrastructure;\n(f) connection with any building operation or demolition;\n(g) connection with the laying, erection, alteration or repair in or near the bus lane 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 paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 of the Telecommunications Act 1984;\nif the vehicle cannot be used for that purpose without being in the bus lane or the bus-only route and in so far as the activity is not prohibited by the provisions of any other Order.",
  "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": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3051/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:35:38.474857+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."
}