Paragraph 4 Exceptions applicable to paragraphs 1 and 3I1

fire and rescue authority;

Scottish Fire and Rescue Service;

traffic officer;

ambulance;

providing a response to an emergency at the request of an NHS ambulance service;

bomb or explosive disposal;

special forces;

police; and

National Crime Agency.

a vehicle that has stopped with the permission or at the direction of—

a vehicle which is prevented from proceeding by circumstances beyond the driver’s control or which has to be stopped in order to avoid injury or damage to persons or property;

in respect of paragraph 1 only, a taxi which is stationary only for so long as may be reasonably necessary for a passenger to board or alight and to load or unload any luggage of the passenger (but this exemption does not apply in relation to a marking on a red route where paragraph 12 of Part 5 applies);

a marked vehicle which, whilst used by a universal service provider in the course of the provision of a universal postal service, is stationary only for so long as may be reasonably necessary for postal packets to be collected;

in respect of paragraph 1 only, a vehicle driven by a person whilst being trained to drive a bus operating local services who, as part of that training, stops the vehicle on the road marking for no longer than necessary to simulate the stopping of a bus at a bus stop for the purpose of picking up and setting down passengers;

a vehicle which is stationary in order that it may be used for one or more of the purposes specified in sub-paragraph (3) and which cannot be used for such a purpose without stopping on the marking.

any operation involving building, demolition or excavation;

the removal of any obstruction to traffic;

the maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of a road;

constructing, improving, maintaining or cleaning any street furniture (including, in respect of paragraph 1 only, bus stop infrastructure); or

the laying, erection, alteration, repair or cleaning of any sewer or of any main, pipe or apparatus for the supply of gas, water or electricity, or of any electronic communications apparatus kept installed for the purposes of an electronic communications code F1network or of any other electronic communications apparatus lawfully kept installed in any position.