Regulation 11 Use of the special road by excluded traffic
Excluded traffic is hereby authorised to use the special road on the occasions or in the emergencies and to the extent specified in the following provisions of this paragraph, that is to say:–
traffic of Class III may use the special road for the maintenance, repair, cleaning or clearance of any part of the special road or for the erection, laying, placing, maintenance, testing, alteration, repair or removal of any structure, works or apparatus in, on, under or over any part of the special road;
pedestrians may use the special road:–
when it is necessary for them to do so as a result of an accident or emergency or of a vehicle being at rest on the special road in any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (2) of Regulation 5, or
in any of the circumstances specified in sub-paragraph (b), (d), (e) or (f) of paragraph (1) of Regulation 12.
Provided that no pedestrian shall go or remain on any part of the special road other than a hard shoulder or emergency waiting area except in so far as it is necessary for him to do so to reach a hard shoulder or emergency waiting area or to secure compliance with any of these Regulations or to recover or move any object which has fallen onto the special road or to give help which is required by any other person in any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (2) of Regulation 5.
The Secretary of State may authorise the use of the special road by any excluded traffic on occasion or in emergency or for the purpose of enabling such traffic to cross the special road or to secure access to premises abutting on or adjacent to the special road.
Where by reason of any emergency the use of any road (not being the special road) by any excluded traffic is rendered impossible or unsuitable the Chief Officer of Police of the police area in which the special road is situated, or any officer of or above the rank of Superintendent authorised in that behalf by that Chief Officer, may:–
authorise any excluded traffic to use that special road as an alternative road for the period during which the use of the other road by such traffic continues to be impossible or unsuitable; and
relax any prohibition or restriction imposed by these Regulations in so far as he considers it necessary to do so in connection with the use of that special road by excluded traffic in pursuance of any such authorisation as aforesaid.