Article 2 Approved devices

A device is an approved device for the purposes of regulations under section 144 of the Transport Act 2000 (civil penalties for bus lane contraventions) if it is of a type which falls within any of the following descriptions—

(a)

subject to article 2, a device which is of a description specified in an order made by the Secretary of State under section 20(9) of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988^f1 (prescribed devices for the purposes of speeding and other offences);

(b)

a device certified, by a person authorised in that behalf by the Secretary of State, as meeting the criteria specified in paragraphs 2 to 6 of the Schedule to this Order;

(c)

a device that does not meet the criteria referred to in paragraph (b) but which was used before the coming into force of this Order for the purpose of bus lane enforcement under Part II (bus lanes) of the London Local Authorities Act 1996^f2.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1988 c. 53; section 21 was substituted by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) section 23.
f2: 1996 c. ix. See, in particular, the definition of “prescribed device” in section 3 of the 1996 Act.