{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-humber-gas-pipeline-replacement-order-2016/article-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/853",
  "legislation_title": "The River Humber Gas Pipeline Replacement Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/river-humber-gas-pipeline-replacement-order-2016",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Traffic Regulation",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this article and the consent of the traffic authority in whose area the road concerned is situated, which consent must not be unreasonably withheld or delayed, the undertaker may, in so far as may be expedient or necessary for the purposes of or in connection with construction, operation, or maintenance of the authorised project—\n(a) revoke, amend or suspend in whole or in part any order made, or having effect as if made, under the 1984 Act;\n(b) permit, prohibit or restrict the stopping, parking, waiting, loading or unloading of vehicles on any road;\n(c) authorise the use as a parking place of any road;\n(d) make provision as to the direction or priority of vehicular traffic on any road; and\n(e) permit or prohibit vehicular access to any road;\neither at all times or at times, on days or during such periods as may be specified by the undertaker.\n(2) The undertaker may not exercise the powers in paragraph (1) unless it has—\n(a) given not less than 4 weeks’ notice in writing of its intention so to do to the chief officer of police and to the traffic authority in whose area the road is situated; and\n(b) advertised its intention in such manner as the traffic authority may specify in writing within 7 days of its receipt of notice of the undertaker’s intention under sub-paragraph (a).\n(3) Any prohibition, restriction or other provision made by the undertaker under paragraph (1)—\n(a) has effect as if duly made by, as the case may be—\n(i) the traffic authority in whose area the road is situated as a traffic regulation order under the 1984 Act; or\n(ii) the local authority in whose area the road is situated as an order under section 32 of the 1984 Act; and\n(b) is deemed to be a traffic order for the purposes of Schedule 7 to the Traffic Management Act 2004 (road traffic contraventions subject to civil enforcement).\n(4) Any prohibition, restriction or other provision made under this article may be suspended, varied or revoked by the undertaker from time to time by subsequent exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph (1) at any time.\n(5) Before complying with the provisions of paragraph (2) the undertaker must consult the chief officer of police and the traffic authority in whose area the road is situated.\n(6) Expressions used in this article and in the 1984 Act have the same meaning in this article as in that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 16 in force at 15.9.2016, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c.18."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/853/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:20:42.702990+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."
}