This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2021/988 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
Statutory Instruments
2021 No. 1402
Road Traffic
The Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021
Approved by both Houses of Parliament
Made
at 2.42 p.m. on 15th November 2021
Laid before Parliament
at 5.00 p.m. on 15th November 2021
Coming into force in accordance with article 1
The Secretary of State, being satisfied that it is desirable to do so, makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 20(1) and 20(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984( 1 ).
This Order does not have effect unless and until it has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament( 2 ).
Citation, commencement and extent
1. This Order—
(a) may be cited as the Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2021;
(b) comes into force on the day after the day on which it is approved by a resolution of the second House of Parliament to approve it; and
(c) extends to England and Wales and Scotland.
Amendment of the Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019
2. —(1)The Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019( 3 ) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (2) of article 3 (restricted access to local roads in Kent), for the text after the definition of “operator’s licence” to the end, substitute—
“ “ the relevant class of road ” means all roads in Kent ( 4 ) for which National Highways Limited ( 5 ) , Kent County Council or Medway Council is the traffic authority under section 121A of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 ( 6 ) other than—
the A2070 link road from its junction with the A2070 (Bad Munstereifel Road) to Junction 10a of the M20 Motorway;
the A20 between Greater London’s boundary with Kent (adjacent to the point where the B2173 joins the London-bound carriageway of the A20) and the beginning of the M20 Motorway (Junction 1 near Swanley);
the A249 between Stockbury Roundabout (Junction 5 of the M2 Motorway) and Newnham Court Roundabout (Junction 7 of the M20 Motorway);
the A2 between Greater London’s boundary with Kent (approximately 300 metres west of the exit slip road from the coastbound carriageway of the A2 to Old Bexley Lane) and the beginning of the M2 Motorway (Junction 1 near Strood); and
the A20 between the end of the M20 Motorway (Junction 13) and the end of the A20 (Eastern Docks Roundabout). ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Robert Courts
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
At 2.42 p.m. on 15th November 2021
1984 c. 27 ; section 20(3) was substituted by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22) , section 168(1) and Schedule 8, paragraph 32.
See section 20(4) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.
S.I. 2019/1394 , as amended by S.I. 2020/1155 and S.I. 2021/988 .
Orders made under section 20 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 cannot apply to special roads (section 20(3)). Special roads in Kent include the M2, M20, M25 and M26 Motorways.
Company number 09346363.
Section 121A was inserted by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22) , section 168(1) and Schedule 8, paragraph 70, and amended by the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7) , section 1(6) and Schedule 1, paragraph 95, to provide for a strategic highways company (i.e. National Highways) to be a traffic authority. There are other amendments but none is relevant.