# The Local Roads Authorities' Traffic Orders (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 1987, Regulation 2: Interpretation


(1) In these Regulations the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:—
“the Act” means the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984;
“the authority” and “the council”, in relation to any order, means the local roads authority making, or proposing to make, the order under the Act or under section 36B(5) of the Road Traffic Act 1972 (as the case may be);
“consolidation order” means an order which revokes provisions of one or more existing orders, reproduces those provisions without any change in substance and makes no other provision, but so, however, that for the purpose of this definition the following shall not be regarded as a change in substance:—
(a) the inclusion in the order (by way of an addition to the provisions of any existing order or orders) of an exemption required by the Local Authorities' Traffic Orders (Exemptions for Disabled Persons) (Scotland) Regulations 1971, in respect of a disabled person’s vehicle, or of a provision conferring on a traffic warden functions similar to those conferred by the existing order or orders on a police constable in uniform or of both such exemption and such provision, or
(b) the substitution in the order in place of a prohibition or restriction in any existing order or orders, of a prohibition or restriction of the type specified in regulation 19(1)(b) or (c);
“Crown road” and “the appropriate Crown Authority” have the same meanings as in section 131(7) of the Act;
“the local roads authority” has the meaning given by paragraph (a) of the definition of “roads authority” in section 151(1) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;
“the notice of proposals” and “the notice of making”, in relation to an order, mean respectively the notices required to be published under regulations 5 and 16;
“the objection period” means the period within which objections to an order may be made in accordance with regulation 6;
“the order” means, in relation to anything occurring or falling to be done before its making, the order as proposed to be made, and in relation to anything occurring or falling to be done on or after its making, the order as made; and “relevant map”, in relation to an order, means the map required to be prepared and kept in connection with that order by regulation 14.
(2) Any reference in these Regulations to an order under any particular section of the Act or under section 36B(5) of the Road Traffic Act 1972 includes a reference to an order varying or revoking an order made, or having effect as if made, under that section.
(3) In relation to an order under section 36B(5) of the Road Traffic Act 1972 any reference in these Regulations to Part I or III of Schedule 9 to the Act shall be construed as a reference to that Part as applied by section 36B(7)(c) of the said Act of 1972.
(4) Except where otherwise expressly provided, any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or schedule is a reference to the regulation or schedule bearing that number in these Regulations and a reference in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2245/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-roads-authorities-traffic-orders-procedure-scotland-regulations-1987/regulation-2
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