{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/27",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Supplementary provisions as to orders and notices under s. 14.",
  "text": "(1) A person who contravenes, or who uses or permits the use of a vehicle in contravention of, a restriction or prohibition imposed under section 14 of this Act shall be guilty of an offence.\n( 2 ) The national authority may make regulations with respect to the procedure to be followed in connection with the making of orders and the issue of notices under section 14 of this Act including provision for notifying the public of the exercise, or proposed exercise, of the powers conferred by that section and of the effect of orders and notices made or issued in the exercise of those powers.\n(2A) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2) above, the national authority may by regulations under that subsection make, in relation to such orders as the national authority thinks appropriate, provision—\n(a) for the making and consideration of objections to a proposed order; and\n(b) for any of the matters mentioned in paragraph 22(1) of Schedule 9 to this Act;\nand paragraph 25 of that Schedule shall apply to regulations under that subsection as it applies to regulations under Part III of that Schedule, taking references to orders as including both orders and notices.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 16(2)(2A) substituted (1.7.1992) for s. 16(2) by Road Traffic (Temporary Restrictions) Act 1991 (c. 26, SIF 107:1), s. 1(2); S.I. 1992/1218, art.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(2) substituted (23.5.2016) by Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11), s. 72(7), Sch. 2 para. 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(2A) substituted (23.5.2016) by Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11), s. 72(7), Sch. 2 para. 3(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(2A) substituted (23.5.2016) by Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11), s. 72(7), Sch. 2 para. 3(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 16(3)(4) repealed (1.11.1991) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 168(1)(2), Sch. 8 para. 27, Sch.9; which repeal is in force for Scotland only by S.I. 1991/2286, art. 2(2), Sch.2. and for England and Wales only by S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3,Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 16 excluded (temp.) (1.10.1991) by Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40, SIF 107), s. 76(3)(c) (with s. 79(1)); S.I. 1991/2054, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 16 applied (with modifications) by 2003 c. iii, s. 7(3A) (as modified by 2006 c. 12, ss. 16A(6), 16B(2) (as inserted) (E.) (14.2.2012) by 2011 c. 22, ss. 7(1), 10(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 16 applied (with modifications) (22.6.2007) by The Road Tunnel Safety Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1520), reg. 7(3)(7) (with reg. 3) (as amended (28.5.2021) by The Road Tunnel Safety (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/552), regs. 1, 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 16(1) modified (E.W.) by Dartford-Thurrock Crossing Act 1988 (c. 20, SIF 59) ss. 19, 24(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 16(2)(2A): certain functions transferred (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/1750, art. 2, Sch. 1; S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:02:32.152245+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."
}