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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/secretary-of-states-traffic-orders-procedure-scotland-regulations-1987/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2244",
  "legislation_title": "The Secretary of State’s Traffic Orders (Procedure) (Scotland) Regulations 1987",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations lay down the procedure to be followed by the Secretary of State in connection with the making of various types of traffic orders under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, and under Section 36B of the Road Traffic Act 1972.\nRegulation 3 specifies the orders to which the Regulations apply. These include traffic regulation orders, experimental traffic orders, speed limit orders and orders for exempting roads from the prohibition of the parking of vehicles on verges, central reservations and footways in respect of trunk roads, and orders being made in respect of non-trunk roads whether under sections 22 or 132 of the 1984 Act or under the reserve powers of the Secretary of State by virtue of paragraph 3 or under paragraph 7 of Schedule 9 to that Act.\nRegulations 4 to 10 lay down the procedure to be followed before the order is made. They provide for preliminary consultations with the police (regulation 4), publication of the proposals (regulation 5), objections to the order (regulations 6 and 9), public inquiries (regulations 7 and 8) and the modification of proposals (regulation 10).\nProvisions as to the making of the order and the subsequent procedure, including the publication of a notice of its making, the notification of the police, the local roads authority and objectors, and the provision of traffic signs, are contained in regulations 11 and 12.\nCertain of the above-mentioned requirements are modified in relation to certain classes of order by virtue of regulations 13 and 14.\nSchedules 1 to 3 contain particulars of the details to be included in the press notice of an order, of the requirements as to the display of notices of an order in the road itself, and of the requirements about making documents relating to an order available for public inspection. Schedule 4 relates specific unladen weight of vehicles to the corresponding maximum gross weight.",
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