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Session 2003 - 04 Internet Publications Other Bills before Parliament

Traffic Management Bill

Traffic Management Bill
EXPLANATORY NOTES
Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by the Department for Transport, will be
published separately as EN—13.
EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Mr Secretary Darling has made the following statement under section 19(1)(a) of the
Human Rights Act 1998:
In my view the provisions of the Traffic Management Bill are compatible with the
Convention rights.
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Contents
Part 1
Traffic Officers
Traffic officers for England and for Wales
1    Traffic officers: introduction
2    Designation of traffic officers
Jurisdiction and powers of traffic officers
3    Jurisdiction of traffic officers
4    Powers to direct traffic officers
5    The special powers of a traffic officer
6    Powers to stop or direct traffic etc.
7    Powers to place temporary traffic signs
8    Power to confer further special powers on traffic officers
9    Removal of certain vehicles by traffic officers
Miscellaneous and supplementary
10    Offences
11    Uniform
12    Power to charge for traffic officer services provided on request
13    Power to acquire land
14    Financial assistance to authorised persons
15    Interpretation of Part 1
Part 2
Network management by local traffic authorities
General duties relating to network management
16    The network management duty
17    Arrangements for network management
18    Guidance to local traffic authorities
19    Power to require information relating to network management
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Enforcement of network management duties
20    Intervention notices
21    Intervention orders
22    Appointment of traffic director: supplementary
23    Monitoring and reporting
24    Intervention in activities of local traffic authority
25    Exercise of local traffic authority functions
26    Application of sections 20 to 25 to local traffic authorities exercising functions
jointly
27    Criteria for making intervention orders
28    Guidance to traffic directors
29    Traffic directors in London
30    Recovery of costs from local traffic authorities
31    Interpretation of Part 2
Part 3
Permit Schemes
32    Meaning of “permit scheme”
33    Preparation of permit schemes
34    Implementation etc of local highway authority permit schemes
35    Implementation etc of other permit schemes
36    Permit regulations
37    Crown application
38    Interpretation of Part 3
Part 4
Street works
Enforcement
39    Increase in penalties for summary offences under 1991 Act
40    Fixed penalty offences
Co-ordination of works by street authority
41    Duty of street authority to co-ordinate works
Direction-making powers
42    Directions relating to timing of street works
43    Directions as to placing of apparatus
Records and information
44    The street works register
45    Records of location of apparatus
46    Duties relating to the location of unexpected apparatus
47    Duty to inspect records
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Miscellaneous
48    Qualifications of supervisors and operatives
49    Works following substantial road works
50    Restriction on works following substantial street works
51    Notices requiring remedial works relating to reinstatements
52    Duty to notify street authority of reinstatement
53    Power of street authority to require undertaker to re-surface street
54    Re-surfacing: regulations and guidance
55    Contributions to costs of re-surfacing by undertaker
Part 5
Highways and roads
Strategic roads in London
56    Strategic roads in London: initial designation by Secretary of State
57    Orders of the Greater London Authority changing what are strategic roads
58    London borough council exercising powers under Highways Act 1980 so as
to affect strategic roads
59    London borough council exercising powers under Road Traffic Regulation
Act 1984 so as to affect strategic roads
Enforcement of certain offences under the Highways Act 1980
60    Fixed penalty offences under the Highways Act 1980
Records of objects placed in highway
61    Duty of local highway authority to keep records of objects in highway
Skips, scaffolding, building materials and excavations: charges for occupation of highway etc.
62    Builders’ skips: charge for occupation of highway for unreasonable period
63    Builders’ skips: charge determined by reference to duration of occupation of
highway
64    Scaffolding, building materials and excavations: charge for occupation of
highway for unreasonable period
65    Scaffolding, building materials and excavations: charge determined by
reference to duration of occupation of highway
66    Sections 62 to 65: supplementary
Guidance as to safety precautions
67    Guidance to local highway authorities as to safety precautions
Part 6
Civil enforcement of traffic contraventions
Civil penalties for road traffic contraventions
68    Civil penalties for road traffic contraventions
69    Contraventions subject to civil enforcement
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70    Civil enforcement areas
71    Power to require authority to apply for civil enforcement powers
72    Civil enforcement officers
73    Setting the level of penalty charges
Notification, adjudication and enforcement
74    Notification of penalty charge
75    Immobilisation of vehicle where penalty charge payable
76    Representations and appeals
77    Adjudicators
78    Enforcement of penalty charges
79    Certificated bailiffs
Additional contraventions in special enforcement areas
80    Designation of special enforcement areas
81    Prohibition of double parking etc.
82    Prohibition of parking at dropped footways
Supplementary
83    Financial provisions
84    Regulations and orders
85    Application to Crown and visiting forces
86    Consequential amendments and repeals
87    Minor definitions
88    Index of defined expressions
Part 7
Miscellaneous and General
89    Application of surplus income from parking places
90    Wales
91    Financial provision
92    Commencement, transitionals and savings
93    Short title and extent
Schedule 1   —    Increase in maximum fines for certain summary offences
under the 1991 Act
Schedule 2   —    Schedule 4A to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991
Schedule 3   —    Schedule 4B to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991
Schedule 4   —    Schedule 3A to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991
Schedule 5   —    Schedule 22A to the Highways Act 1980
Schedule 6   —    Schedule 22B to the Highways Act 1980
Schedule 7   —    Road traffic contraventions subject to civil enforcement
Part 1   —    Parking contraventions
Part 2   —    Bus lane contraventions
Part 3   —    London lorry ban contraventions
Part 4   —    Moving traffic contraventions
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Schedule 8   —    Civil enforcement areas and enforcement authorities
Part 1   —    In Greater London
Part 2   —    Outside Greater London
Schedule 9   —    Civil enforcement: setting the level of charges
Part 1   —    Charges to which this Schedule applies
Part 2   —    Charges applicable in Greater London
Part 3   —    Charges applicable outside Greater London
Schedule 10   —    Civil enforcement: special enforcement areas
Schedule 11   —    Civil enforcement: consequential amendments
Schedule 12   —    Civil enforcement: repeals

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