Statutory Instruments

2000 No. 1511

LONDON GOVERNMENT

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

The Highways (Traffic Calming) (Amendment) Regulations 2000

Made

8th June 2000

Laid before Parliament

12th June 2000

Coming into force

3rd July 2000

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, in exercise of the power conferred by section 90GA(4) of the Highways Act 1980(1) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Highways (Traffic Calming) (Amendment) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 3rd July 2000.

Amendment of the Highways (Traffic Calming) Regulations 1999

2.-(1) The Highways (Traffic Calming) Regulations 1999(2) shall be amended as follows.

(2) After regulation 4 there shall be inserted the following regulation-

"Traffic calming works in London falling within section 90GA of the Highways Act 1980

4A.-(1) The requirements specified in paragraph (2) are hereby prescribed as requirements for the purposes of section 90GA(4) of the Highways Act 1980 (requirements as to consultation and publicity to be complied with by a local highway authority in Greater London if works proposed to be constructed by virtue of the power conferred by section 90G(1)(c) are to fall within section 90GA).

(2) The requirements are that the local highway authority-

(a)shall consult the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis, if the highway is in a London borough or the Commissioner of the City of London Police if it is in the City of London;

(b)shall consult such other persons or organisations representing persons who use the highway or who are otherwise likely to be affected by the traffic calming work as the authority think fit."

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

Keith Hill

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

8th June 2000

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

Section 269 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999 amends section 90G of the Highways Act 1980, so as to confer on local highway authorities in Greater London the power to construct traffic calming works if they fall within section 90GA (inserted by the 1999 Act). These Regulations amend the Highways (Traffic Calming) Regulations 1999 so as to prescribe requirements as to consultation and publicity with which a local highway authority must comply if works are to fall within section 90GA.

(1)

1980 c. 66; section 90GA was inserted by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29) section 269(4) and was amended by the Greater London Authority (Miscellaneous Amendments) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/1435) Schedule, paragraph 7.

(2)

S.I. 1999/1026.