Highways (Road Humps) Regulations 1999
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1999 No. 1025
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Highways (Road Humps) Regulations 1999
Made 30th March 1999
Laid before Parliament 30th March 1999
Coming into force 28th April 1999
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, make these Regulations in exercise of powers conferred by sections 90C(1) and 90D(1) and (2) of the Highways Act 19801, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with sections 90C(6) and 90D(3) of that Act–
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Highways (Road Humps) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 28th April 1999.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these Regulations–
“the Act” means the Highways Act 1980;
“traffic sign” has the same meaning as in section 64 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 19842;
“the Traffic Signs Regulations” means the Traffic Signs Regulations 19943;
“20 miles per hour zone” means a zone comprising one or more roads in relation to which the following conditions are satisfied–
(a) a speed limit of 20 miles per hour applies to each road within the zone;
(b) a traffic sign of the size, colour and type shown in diagram 674 of the Traffic Signs Regulations 1994 is placed at each entrance to the zone for vehicular traffic; and
“EEA State” means a State which is a contracting party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 19934.
(2) A reference in these Regulations to a traffic sign is a reference to that sign, if used in Wales, with the prefix W as prescribed by the Traffic Signs (Welsh and English Language Provisions) Regulations 19855.
Consultation about road hump proposals
3. Where the Secretary of State or a local highway authority proposes to construct a road hump, he or they shall, as well as consulting the chief officer of police as required by section 90C(1) of the Act, also consult–
(a) where the proposal is by a local highway authority in England which is the council of a County, any district council in whose district the highway is situated;
(b) in all cases, the chief officer of the fire brigade for the area in which the highway concerned is situated and the chief officer of any body providing ambulance services under the National Health Service Act 19776and operating in that area;
(c) in all cases, organisations appearing to him or them to represent persons who use the highway to which the proposal related, or to represent persons who are otherwise likely to be affected by the road hump.
Nature, dimensions and location of road humps
4.—(1) Subject to regulation 7, no road hump shall be constructed or maintained in a highway unless–
(a)
(a) each face of it across the carriageway of the highway in which it is constructed is at right angles to an imaginary line along the centre of that carriageway;
(b)
(b) it has a minimum length of 900 millimetres measured parallel to an imaginary line along the centre of that carriageway from the point where one face meets the surface of that carriageway to the point where the other face meets the surface of that carriageway;
(c)
(c) the highest point on it is not less than 25 millimetres nor more than 100 millimetres higher than an imaginary line parallel to the centre line of that carriageway connecting the surface of that carriageway on one side of the road hump to the surface of that carriageway on the other side of the road hump and passing vertically below that point; and,
(d)
(d) no vertical face of any material forming part of that road hump exceeds 6 millimetres measured vertically from top to bottom of...
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