Article 17 Traffic regulation measures

temporarily make provision for traffic signs and signals and use of bankspersons in respect of the lengths of road specified in Part 1 of Schedule 7 (traffic regulation measures) and the placing of any traffic signs and signals is deemed to have been permitted by the traffic authority for the purposes of section 65 (powers and duties of traffic authorities as to placing of traffic signs) of the 1984 Act and the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016^f1;

temporarily make provision, in respect of the lengths of road specified in Part 2 of Schedule 7 (traffic regulation measures) imposing the temporary speed limit mentioned in column (2); and

temporarily make provision, in respect of the lengths of road specific in Part 3 of Schedule 7 (traffic regulation measures) imposing the dedicated left turn regime in column (2).

as to the speed at which vehicles may proceed along any road;

permitting, prohibiting or restricting the closing, waiting, loading or unloading of vehicles on any road;

as to the prescribed routes for vehicular traffic or the direction or priority of vehicular traffic on any road;

permitting or prohibiting or restricting the use by vehicular traffic or non-vehicular traffic of any road; and

suspending or amending in whole or in part any order made, or having effect as if made, under the 1984 Act, either at all times or at times, on days or during such periods as may be reasonably specified by the undertaker.

consult with the chief officer of police in whose area the road is situated; and

obtain the written consent of the traffic authority, which consent must not be unreasonably withheld.

given not less than 28 days’ notice in writing of its intention to do so to the chief officer of police and to the traffic authority in whose area the road is situated;

not less than seven days before the provision is to take effect published the undertaker’s intention to make the provision in one or more newspapers circulating in the area in which any road to which the provision relates is situated; and

displayed a site notice containing the same information at each end of the length of road affected.

must be made by written instrument in such form as the undertaker considers appropriate;

has effect as if duly made by the traffic authority in whose area the road is situated, as a traffic regulation order under the 1984 Act and the instrument by which it is effected may specify specific savings and exemptions to which the provision is subject; and

is deemed to be a traffic order for the purposes of Schedule 7 (road traffic contraventions subject to civil enforcement) to the Traffic Management Act 2004^f3.