Schedule Scottish Borders Council (Jim Clark Memorial Rally)

The Scottish Borders Council (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) are by virtue of sections 133 and 146 of the 1973 c. 65.Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 vested with the functions of roads authority for the area of the Scottish Borders:

As roads authority and traffic authority the Council are responsible for administering the provisions of the 1984 c. 54.Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 and the 1984 c. 27.Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984:

By virtue of Part VI of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 public roads in the former district of Berwickshire (hereinafter referred to as “the district”) are subject to speed limits for motor vehicles:

For more than twenty years a motor car rally (hereinafter called “the rally”) known as the Jim Clark Memorial Rally has taken place annually on private roads and tracks in the district in memory of the late Jim Clark, the Berwickshire farmer who became world motor-racing champion in 1963 and 1965 and was killed in a motor-racing accident at Hockenheim, Germany on 7th April 1968:

It would generate more public interest in the rally and enhance its reputation and, by encouraging tourism in the district and benefiting the local economy, it would be of public and local advantage, if the rally were to take place on closed public roads in the district:

For the purposes aforesaid it is expedient to authorise the Council to permit certain public roads in the district to be used for the rally on certain days of the year and for this purpose to empower the Council on certain days and at certain times to close to the public or restrict access to the whole or parts of those public roads in the district and to suspend the operation of certain enactments in respect of those roads:

It is expedient that other provisions in this Order be enacted:

The purposes aforesaid cannot be effected without an Order confirmed by Parliament under the provisions of the 1936 c. 52.Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936: