The Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982

UK Statutory Instrument 1982 No. 1163 — creates 1 criminal offence.

Made

11 August 1982

In force from

15 September 1982

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Road traffic and vehicles

Made under

Section 13(2) and (3) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations revoke and re-enact with amendments the provisions of The Motorways Traffic Regulations 1959 and the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 1971. The principal amendments are as follows— 1 The definitions of the constituent parts of a motorway in Regulation 3(1) are amended, introducing a specific definition of hard shoulder in Regulation 3(1)(e). The provisions in Regulations 7 and 9 as to stopping on a motorway are, in consequence, framed by reference to the hard shoulder. 2 The restrictions on the use of the right hand or off side lane are amended so that they apply to a motor car with a maximum gross weight exceeding 7.5 tonnes, and a heavy motor car constructed for the carriage of passengers and their effects and which has an overall length greater than 12 metres (Regulation 12(1)). These restrictions will apply on any motorway which has three or more traffic lanes where all the lanes are open for use by traffic proceeding in the same direction (Regulation 12(2)).

Offences created by this instrument

• Contravention of The Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982 the instrument as a whole · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

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• Traffic Management Commons · Westminster Hall · 16 December 2003 · Mr. Kidney

  I understand that the components of the pilot will also include effective monitoring equipment, a constantly staffed control centre and, most importantly, a new network of emergency refuge areas adjacent to the existing hard shoulder. That is my understanding of how the scheme will operate. At times of heavy congestion—I have seen suggestions that on weekdays that will be two and a half hours during the morning and four hours during the evening—the green arrows above the hard shoulder will indicate that it may be used as a running lane. The green arrows will be switched on only after the…

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