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Home Zones Bill
This is the text of the Home Zones Bill, as presented to the House of Commons on 27 January 1998 | |||||||||||||||
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B I L L TO Enable highway authorities to make provision in residential areas for the designation of highways where pedestrians and pedal cycles have priority in the carriageway over mechanically propelled vehicles, for the purpose of promoting safety and of improving the environment; and for related purposes. BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:- | |||||||||||||||
Power to designate home zones. | 1. - (1) For any of the purposes stated in subsection (2) below every highway authority shall, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State and in accordance with guidance issued by him, have the power to designate any restricted residential road or roads within their area and for which they are the highway authority as a home zone. | ||||||||||||||
(2) A highway authority may designate a home zone for any or all of the following purposes- | |||||||||||||||
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(3) For the purposes of this Act a home zone is an area within which- | |||||||||||||||
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(4) Within six months of a home zone being designated the highway authority shall introduce such traffic calming works and other measures as it deems appropriate. | |||||||||||||||
(5) A highway authority shall, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State and in accordance with guidance issued by him under section 2, have the power to set a speed limit of 20 miles per hour or less for mechanically propelled vehicles in any home zone designated by it. | |||||||||||||||
Regulations and guidance issued by Secretary of State. | 2. - (1) As soon as is practicable and no later than six months after the coming into force of this Act the Secretary of State shall- | ||||||||||||||
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(2) The Secretary of State may, if he deems it appropriate, issue different guidance for different authorities or different types of authority or for different areas. | |||||||||||||||
(3) Any such guidance may contain such transitional or consequential provisions as the Secretary of State deems appropriate. | |||||||||||||||
(4) Any regulations made under this section shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament | |||||||||||||||
Expenses. | 3. There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament- | ||||||||||||||
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Interpretation. | 4. In this Act the following terms shall have the following meanings, that is to say- | ||||||||||||||
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Short title, commencement and extent. | 5. - (1) This Act may be cited as the Home Zones Act 1998. | ||||||||||||||
(2) This Act shall come into force two months after the date on which it is passed. | |||||||||||||||
(3) This Act extends to Northern Ireland. |
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