Statutory Instruments
2019 No. 1428
Road Traffic
Special Roads
The M11 Motorway (Junctions 8 to 9) (Offside Lane Restriction) Regulations 2019
Made
30th October 2019
Laid before Parliament
31st October 2019
Coming into force
25th November 2019
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17(2) and (3) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984( 1 ).
Representative organisations have been consulted in accordance with section 134(2) of that Act.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the M11 Motorway (Junctions 8 to 9) (Offside Lane Restriction) Regulations 2019 and come into force on 25th November 2019.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations—
“the 1982 Regulations” means the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982 ( 2 );
“carriageway” and “motorway” have the same meaning as in the 1982 Regulations;
“M11” means the M11 motorway between junctions 8 and 9; and
“the specified roads” means—
the northbound carriageway of the M11 from the point which is 660 metres south of the centre of Chestnut Avenue Underbridge to the point which is 848 metres north of the centre of Strethall Road Overbridge; and
the southbound carriageway of the M11 from the point which is 1283 metres north of the centre of Strethall Road Overbridge to the point which is 60 metres north of the centre of Littlebury Green Overbridge.
Lane restriction
3. —(1) Subject to paragraph (2) no heavy commercial vehicle shall, between 7.00 hours and 19.00 hours on any day, be driven or moved or stop or remain at rest on the right hand or offside lane of the carriageway of the specified roads where both lanes are open for use by traffic proceeding in the same direction.
(2) Nothing in paragraph (1)—
(a) has effect so as to require a vehicle to change lane during a period when it would not be reasonably practicable for it to do so without involving danger of injury to any person or inconvenience to other traffic; or
(b) precludes any person from using the specified roads in any of the circumstances set out in regulation 16(1) of the 1982 Regulations.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Vere
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
30th October 2019
1984 c.27 ; section 17(2) was amended by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c.22) , Schedule 8, Part 2, paragraph 28(3); section 17(2)(b) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40) , Schedule 8; section 17(2)(d) was inserted by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40) , Schedule 4, paragraph 25. There are other amendments to sections 17 and 134 which are not relevant to these Regulations.
S.I. 1982/1163 , relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1984/1479 , 1992/1364 .