Road Traffic (St.
John) (Jersey) Order 1982
THE ENVIRONMENT
AND PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE, in pursuance of Articles 62
and 84 of the Road
Traffic (Jersey) Law 1956 and after consultation with the
Connétable of St. John, orders as follows –
Commencement [see endnotes]
PART 1
INTRODUCTORY
1 Application
This Order applies to the
roads in the parish of St. John.
2 Interpretation
In this Order, unless the
context otherwise requires –
“Connétable”
means the Connétable of St. John;
“Motor Traffic Law”
means the Motor
Traffic (Jersey) Law 1935;
“road”
includes part of a road.
PART 2
TRAFFIC CIRCULATION
3 Prohibition
of right-hand turns
A vehicle shall not be
driven so as to make a right-hand turn from a road specified in the first
column of Schedule 1 into a road specified opposite that road in the second
column of Schedule 1.
4 Prohibition
of waiting and stopping
(1) A
vehicle shall not wait on any road specified in the first and second columns of
Part 1 of Schedule 2.[1]
(1A) A vehicle shall not wait on any road specified in the
first and second columns of Part 2 of Schedule 2 between the hours of
8.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m. for a period longer than that specified in
relation to that road in the second column.[2]
(1B) Paragraph (1A) does not apply to any vehicle while
it is being used for fire brigade, ambulance, police or other emergency
services.[3]
(2) A
vehicle shall not wait on a road within 10 yards of its junction with another
road.
(3) A
vehicle, other than a public service vehicle of the appropriate class, shall
not stop on any part of a road which is authorized under Article 37 of the
Motor Traffic Law as a stand for public service vehicles.
(4) A
vehicle shall not wait on any part of a road which has been designated as a no
waiting area for the purpose of allowing access to any premises from that part
of that road.
(5) The
expression “waiting” in this Article does not include the stopping
of a vehicle to set down or pick up passengers.
5 Driving
and stationing of certain vehicles[4]
(1) Except
with the permission in writing of the Connétable of St John or on the
express direction of a police officer, no char-à-banc shall be driven on
a road specified in the first and second columns of Part 1 of Schedule 3.[5]
(2) Except
with the permission in writing of the Connétable, no char-à-banc
shall be stationed on any road.
(3) Except
on the express direction of a police officer, no cab shall be stationed on any
road:
Provided that this paragraph
shall not apply to the stationing of a controlled taxi-cab on a taxi rank as
defined in the Motor Traffic (Taxi-Cabs - General) (Jersey)
Order 2002.
(4) No
vehicle, the overall width of which exceeds 6 feet 6 inches, shall be driven on
a road specified in the first and second columns of Part 2 of Schedule 3 unless
it is –
(a) being driven to or from any premises
situated on or adjacent to that road;
(b) a vehicle engaged in mechanical road
sweeping or road gully cleaning; or
(c) being used for fire brigade, ambulance,
police or other emergency purposes.[6]
(5) In
this Article “cab” and “char-à-banc” have the
same respective meanings as under the Motor Traffic Law.
6 One-way
traffic[7]
A vehicle being driven on
a road specified in the first column of Schedule 4 shall, between the point of
its entry therein and its departure therefrom, follow the direction prescribed
in relation to that road in the second column of that Schedule.
PART 3
MISCELLANEOUS
7 Savings
(1) Article 4
shall not apply to any vehicle while it is being used for fire brigade,
ambulance, police or other emergency purposes.
(2) Article 4
shall not apply –
(a) so as to prevent a public service vehicle
waiting on a part of any road which is authorized in accordance with Article 37
of the Motor Traffic Law, as a stand for public service vehicles;
(b) to a vehicle waiting on any road while any
gate or other barrier at the entrance to premises to which the vehicle requires
access or from which it has emerged is being opened or closed, if it is not
reasonably practicable for the vehicle to wait otherwise than on that road
while such gate or barrier is being opened or closed;
(c) to a vehicle waiting on any road on the
express direction or with the specific permission of a police officer;
(d) to a vehicle stopping on any road owing to
the driver being prevented from proceeding by circumstances beyond the
driver’s control or to a vehicle stopping in order to avoid an accident.
8 Citation
This Order may be cited
as the Road Traffic (St. John) (Jersey) Order 1982.