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Paragraph 8 Road traffic enactments not to apply to closed roads

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

Subject to subsections (2) and (3) below and to the provisions of section 9 (Road traffic regulations) of this Order, while the rally route is closed under section 6 (Power to close public roads) of this Order, no enactment relating to road traffic shall apply to any motor vehicle which is on the rally route with the consent of the Council or to any closed public road forming part of the rally route.

(2)

The S.I. 1976/2019 (S. 166).Motor Vehicles (Competitions and Trials) (Scotland) Regulations 1976 shall apply to the rally authorised by this Order so far as those regulations are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Order and the authorisation thereby of a rally on the rally route at speeds greater than the speed limit imposed under any enactment in respect of any public road which forms part of the rally route.

(3)

Sections 4 to 11 of the 1988 c. 52.Road Traffic Act 1988 are not disapplied by this section.