This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 2023/802 and S.I. 2023/840 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of those Statutory Instruments.
Statutory Instruments
2023 No. 1111
Road Traffic, England
Special Roads, England
The M621 Motorway (Off Side Lane Prohibition Disapplication) (No. 3) Regulations 2023
Made
23rd October 2023
Laid before Parliament
25th October 2023
Coming into force
Regulations 1, 5 and 6
26th October 2023
Remainder
1st December 2023
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17(2), (3) and (3ZB) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984( 1 ).
The Secretary of State has consulted representative organisations in accordance with section 134(2) of that Act( 2 ).
Citation, commencement and extent
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the M621 Motorway (Off Side Lane Prohibition Disapplication) (No. 3) Regulations 2023.
(2) This regulation and regulations 5 and 6 come into force on 26th October 2023.
(3) Regulations 2, 3 and 4 come into force on 1st December 2023.
(4) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.
Meaning of “the specified lengths of carriageway” in regulation 3
2. For the purposes of regulation 3, “the specified lengths of carriageway” are the following lengths of the westbound carriageway of the M621 Motorway in the City of Leeds—
(a) the length which lies between a point 145 metres east of the centre line of the bridge over Belle Isle Road and a point on the centre line of the Dewsbury Road overbridge;
(b) the length which lies between a point 86 metres east of the centre line of the underpass connecting Holbeck Moor Road and Lane End Place and a point 32 metres west of the centre line of the footbridge connecting Tilbury Road with Elland Road;
(c) the length which lies between a point 16 metres east of the centre line of the Lowfields Road underpass and a point 108 metres west of the centre line of the railway bridge between junctions 1 and 2.
Disapplication of prohibition in regulation 12(2) of the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982
3. The prohibition in regulation 12(2) of the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982( 3 ) (prohibition on certain vehicles using right hand or off side lane of carriageway with three or more lanes) does not apply in relation to the specified lengths of carriageway.
Revocation
4. The Motorways Traffic (M621 Motorway) Regulations 1999( 4 ) are revoked.
5. The M621 Motorway (off side lane prohibition disapplication) Regulations 2023( 5 ) are revoked.
6. The M621 Motorway (Off Side Lane Prohibition Disapplication) (No. 2) Regulations 2023( 6 ) are revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Richard Holden
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
23rd October 2023
1984 c. 27 . Section 17(2) was amended by paragraph 28(3) of Schedule 8 to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22) and section 21(3) of the Scotland Act 2012 (c. 11) . Subsection (3ZB) was inserted by section 21(4) of the Scotland Act 2012. There are other amendments to section 17(2) but none is relevant. For the meaning of “use” in section 17(2), see section 17(6). For the meaning of “special road” in section 17(2), see section 142(1) (as amended by paragraph 78(5) of Schedule 8 to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991), which provides that “special road” in England and Wales has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980 (c. 66) . “Special road” is defined in section 329(1) of that Act, as amended by paragraph 29(2) of Schedule 2 to the Planning Act 2008 (c. 29) .
Section 134(2) was amended by paragraph 12(3) of Schedule 2 to the Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11) .
S.I. 1982/1163 , amended by S.I. 1983/374 , 1992/1364 , 1995/158 , 2004/3258 ; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.
S.I. 1999/1077 . Provisions to revoke S.I. 1999/1077 were included in S.I. 2023/802 and S.I. 2023/840 but those two instruments are now revoked by these Regulations.
S.I. 2023/802 . Provision to revoke S.I. 2023/802 was included in S.I. 2023/840 but S.I. 2023/840 is now revoked by these Regulations.