Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (GLA Side Roads Amendment) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st October 2000.

Amendment of Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984

2.-(1) The Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984 shall be amended as follows.

(2) In section 124A(8) (which specifies the "appropriate authority" in relation to certain orders) for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted-

"(b)in relation to an order made under section 124B of this Act, the Mayor of London;".

(3) In section 124A(9) (which provides for references to GLA side roads to be construed by reference to orders of certain descriptions) for paragraph (b) there shall be substituted-

"(b)an order made by the Greater London Authority under section 124B of this Act."

(4) After section 124A there shall be inserted the sections 124B and 124C set out in the Schedule to this Order (which make provision corresponding to sections 14B and 14C of the Highways Act 1980(2) as respects changing the status, and recording the status, of roads).

Article 2(4)

SCHEDULESECTIONS 124B AND 124C OF THE ROAD TRAFFIC REGULATION ACT 1984

Orders of the Authority changing what are GLA side roads.

124B.-(1) The Mayor of London shall keep under review the roads and proposed roads which have junctions with GLA roads or with other roads having such junctions and shall consider the extent to which such roads should be or cease to be GLA side roads.

(2) If the Mayor of London considers it expedient-

(a)that any road or proposed road in Greater London, other than a trunk road or other road for which the Secretary of State is the highway authority, should become a GLA side road, or

(b)that any GLA side road should cease to be such a road and should become a road for which the traffic authority is a London borough council or the Common Council of the City of London,

the Greater London Authority may by order direct that that road or proposed road shall become, or (as the case may be) that that GLA side road shall cease to be, a GLA side road as from such date as may be specified in that behalf in the order.

(3) Where an order under subsection (2) above directs that a road or proposed road shall become a GLA side road, it shall become such a road as from the date specified in that behalf in the order.

(4) Where an order under subsection (2) above directs that a GLA side road shall cease to be such a road, then, as from the date specified in that behalf in the order, the road shall cease to be a GLA side road and the following authority, that is to say-

(a)where the road is situated in a London borough, the council for the London borough, and

(b)where the road is situated in the City of London, the Common Council of the City of London,

shall become the traffic authority for the road.

(5) An order under subsection (2) above shall be of no effect unless-

(a)it is made with the consent of the relevant traffic authority; or

(b)if that consent is refused, it is confirmed (with or without modification) by the Secretary of State.

(6) For the purposes of subsection (5) above, the relevant traffic authority is-

(a)in the case of an order directing that a road or proposed road shall become a GLA side road, the authority that is the traffic authority for the road or proposed road; and

(b)in the case of an order directing that a GLA side road shall cease to be such a road, the authority that will become the traffic authority for the road in consequence of the order.

(7) An order under subsection (2) above may vary, revoke or re-enact with or without modifications-

(a)any other order under that subsection (whether or not that other order was confirmed by the Secretary of State); or

(b)an order of the Secretary of State under section 124A(1) of this Act.

(8) Where a GLA side road becomes a GLA road it shall cease to be a GLA side road.

(9) In this section, notwithstanding section 142(4) of this Act, a reference to a GLA road does not include a reference to a GLA side road.

Certification and records of GLA side roads.

124C.-(1) A certificate by or on behalf of Transport for London that any road or proposed road is, or is not, for the time being a GLA side road shall be evidence of the facts stated in the certificate.

(2) A certificate under subsection (1) above may describe the road or proposed road in question by reference to a map.

(3) Transport for London shall prepare and maintain a record of the roads which are for the time being GLA side roads.

(4) The record required to be prepared and maintained under subsection (3) above may consist of-

(a)a list;

(b)a map; or

(c)a list and a map.

(5) Transport for London shall deposit a copy of that record with the Greater London Authority, each of the London borough councils and the Common Council of the City of London.

(6) Transport for London, and the Greater London Authority, each of the London borough councils and the Common Council of the City of London, shall make the record, or (as the case may be) the copies of the record deposited with them, available for inspection by the public at all reasonable hours.

(7) The record prepared and maintained by Transport for London under this section may be combined with the record which it is required to prepare and maintain under section 14C of the Highways Act 1980.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and, in particular, inserts new sections 124B and 124C into that Act. The new section 124B specifies the procedure whereby a road may become or cease to be a GLA side road and section 124C provides for the giving of certificates as evidence that a road is or is not a GLA side road and for the keeping of records of the roads which are GLA side roads. The new sections are based on sections 14B and 14C of the Highways Act 1980 modified so as to apply them to GLA side roads.