The A40 Trunk Road (Gibraltar Tunnels, Monmouth, Monmouthshire) (Temporary Traffic Prohibitions & Restrictions) Order 2020
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2020No. 830 (W. 181)
ROAD TRAFFIC, WALES
The A40 Trunk Road (Gibraltar Tunnels, Monmouth, Monmouthshire) (Temporary Traffic Prohibitions & Restrictions) Order 2020
Made4August2020
Coming into force11August2020
The Welsh Ministers, as traffic authority for the relevant length of the A40 trunk road, are satisfied that traffic on specified lengths of the trunk road should be prohibited and/or restricted because of works proposed on or near the road.
The Welsh Ministers, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 14(1), (4) and (7) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984( 1), make this Order.
Title, Commencement and Interpretation
1. The title of this Order is the A40 Trunk Road (Gibraltar Tunnels, Monmouth, Monmouthshire) (Temporary Traffic Prohibitions & Restrictions) Order 2020 and it comes into force on 11 August 2020.
2. In this Order—
“exempted vehicle”(“cerbyd esempt”) means:
(a) any vehicle being used for the purposes described in section 87 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984( 2); and
(b) any vehicle being used for naval, military or air force purposes and being driven by a person for the time being subject to the orders of a member of the armed forces of the Crown, who is a member of the special forces—
(i) in response, or for practice in responding, to a national security emergency by a person who has been trained in driving at high speeds; or
(ii) for the purpose of training a person in driving vehicles at high speeds;
“special forces”(“lluoedd arbennig”) means those units of the armed forces the maintenance of whose capabilities is the responsibility of the Director of Special Forces or which are for the time being subject to the operational command of that Director;
“the trunk road”(“y gefnffordd”) means the A40 Newport to Worcester trunk road;
“works period”(“cyfnod y gwaith”) means intermittent periods commencing at 20:00 hours on 11 August 2020 and ending when the temporary traffic signs for each period of works are removed.
Prohibitions and Restrictions
3. No person may, during the works period, drive any vehicle on either the eastbound or westbound carriageway of the length of the trunk road specified in Schedule 1 to this Order.
4.—(1) Whilst movement of traffic is by article 3 prohibited in the eastbound carriageway but, pursuant to article 8, not prohibited in the westbound carriageway, no person may drive any vehicle in the offside lane of the westbound carriageway of the trunk...
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