Road Traffic (St.
Saviour) (Jersey) Order 2000
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. Saviour, orders as follows –
Commencement [see endnotes]
PART 1
INTRODUCTORY
1 Application
This Order applies to the roads in the parish of St. Saviour.
2 Interpretation
(1) In
this Order, unless the context otherwise requires –
“Connétable” means the Connétable of St. Saviour;
“Motor Traffic Law”
means the Motor
Traffic (Jersey) Law 1935;
“road”
includes part of a road.
(2) Unless
the context otherwise requires, a reference in this Order to an enactment
(including an enactment of the United Kingdom) is a reference to that enactment
as amended from time to time and includes a reference to that enactment as
extended or applied under another enactment.
PART 2
TRAFFIC CIRCULATION
3 One-way
traffic
(1) A
vehicle shall not be driven on a road specified in column 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 1
except in the direction specified opposite that road in column 2 of that Part.
(2) Unless
it is a char-à-banc in the course of providing a service that consists
of carrying students to or from school, a char-à-banc shall not be
driven on a road specified in column 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 1 except
in the direction specified opposite that road in column 2 of that Part.
(3) A
vehicle with a width that exceeds 6 feet 6 inches shall not be driven on a road
specified in column 1 of Part 3 of Schedule 1 except in the direction
specified opposite that road in column 2 of that Part.
(4) Paragraph
3 does not apply to –
(a) a
vehicle engaged in mechanical road sweeping or gulley emptying;
(b) an
omnibus in the course of providing a service authorized by a omnibus service
licence granted under Article 19 of the Motor Traffic Law;
(c) a
vehicle being used for fire brigade, ambulance, police or other emergency
purposes;
(d) a
char-à-banc in the course of providing a service that consists of
carrying students to or from school.
4 Prohibition
or restriction of turns
(1) A
vehicle shall not be driven from a road specified in column 1 of Part 1 of
Schedule 2 onto a road specified opposite that road in column 2 of that Part.
(2) A
vehicle shall not be driven so as to make a right-hand turn from a road
specified in column 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 2 onto a road specified
opposite that road in column 2 of that Part.
(3) A
vehicle shall not be driven so as to make a left-hand turn from a road
specified in column 1 of Part 3 of Schedule 2 onto a road specified
opposite that road in column 2 of that Part.
5 Prohibition
of waiting and stopping
(1) A
vehicle shall not wait on a road specified in columns 1 and 2 of Part 1 of
Schedule 3.
(2) A
vehicle shall not wait on a road within 10 yards of its junction with another
road.
(3) A
vehicle shall not stop on a part of a road that is authorized under Article 37
of the Motor Traffic Law as a stand for public service vehicles unless it is a
public service vehicle of the appropriate class.
(4) A
vehicle shall not wait on a part of a road that has been designated by the
Connétable as a no waiting area for the purpose of allowing access to
premises from that part of that road.
(5) A
vehicle shall not wait on a part of a road that has been set aside for the
delivery or collection of goods or merchandise unless it is a vehicle being
used to deliver or collect goods or merchandise.
(6) A
vehicle being used to deliver or collect goods or merchandise shall not wait to
be loaded or unloaded on a road specified in column 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 3
between the hours specified in column 2 of that Part.
(7) In
this Article “waiting” does not include stopping a vehicle to set
down or pick up passengers.
6 Waiting
and stopping – savings
Article 5 shall not
apply –
(a) to
a vehicle while it is being used for fire brigade, ambulance, police or other
emergency purpose;
(b) to
a public service vehicle that is waiting on a part of a road that is authorized
in accordance with Article 37 of the Motor Traffic Law as a stand for
public service vehicles;
(c) to
a vehicle that is necessarily waiting on a road while there is being opened or
closed a gate or other barrier at the entrance to premises to which the vehicle
requires access or from which it has emerged;
(d) to
a vehicle that is waiting on a road on the express direction or with the
specific permission of a police officer;
(e) to
a vehicle that has stopped on a road because it is prevented from proceeding by
circumstances beyond its driver’s control;
(f) to
a vehicle that has stopped on a road to avoid an accident;
(g) to
a vehicle that is necessarily waiting on a road to enable it to be used in
connection with –
(i) a
building operation or demolition work,
(ii) the
removal of an obstruction or potential obstruction to traffic,
(iii) the
maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of that road, or
(iv) the
erection, laying, placing, maintenance, testing, alteration, repair or removal
of a structure, works or apparatus, in, on, under or over that road;
(h) to
a vehicle that is being used to deliver or collect postal packets as defined in
Article 1 of the Post Office (Jersey) Law 1969;
(i) to
a vehicle that is necessarily waiting on a road to enable it to be used to
collect household refuse or to clean a cesspool.
6A Roads closed to through
traffic[1]
No vehicle shall be
driven on a road specified in column 1 of Schedule 3A during the times
prescribed in relation to that road in column 2 of that Schedule, except –
(a) for
the purpose of delivering or collecting a person or goods or merchandise to or
from any premises situated on or adjacent to that road;
(b) to or
from a place on that road set aside under this Order for the parking of
vehicles;
(c) to or
from premises having a means of vehicular access from that road;
(d) a
vehicle engaged in mechanical road sweeping or road gully cleaning; or
(e) if
the vehicle is a bicycle.
7 Driving
and stationing of certain vehicles
(1) A
char-à-banc shall not be driven on a road specified in columns 1 and 2
of Part 1 of Schedule 4 except with the written permission of the
Connétable or on the express direction of a police officer.
(2) A
char-à-banc shall not be stationed on a road except with the written
permission of the Connétable.
(3) A
cab shall not be stationed on a road except on the express direction of a
police officer.
(4) Paragraph (3)
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.
(5) A
vehicle with a width that exceeds 6 feet 6 inches shall not be driven on a road
specified in columns 1 and 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 4
unless –
(a) it is
being used for fire brigade, ambulance, police or other emergency purpose;
(b) it is
being driven to or from premises situated on or adjacent to that road; or
(c) it is
a vehicle engaged in refuse collection, mechanical road sweeping or road gully
cleaning.
(6) In
this Article, “cab” and “char-à-banc” have the
same respective meanings as in the Motor Traffic Law.
PART 3
LIMIT ON PARKING
7A Parking of vehicles
displaying parking discs etc.[2]
(1) A
person shall not park a vehicle on a road or part of a road listed in Schedule 6 –
(a) without
displaying a parking disc or a parking card in accordance with paragraph (3);
and
(b) in
the case of a road or part of a road listed –
(i) in Part 1 of
Schedule 6, for a period in excess of 2 hours,
(ia) in
Part 1A of Schedule 6, at any time other than for a period not
exceeding 2 hours between the hours of 9.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m.,
or
(ii) in
Part 2 of Schedule 6, for a period in excess of 3 hours.[3]
(2) A
vehicle that has been parked on a road specified in Schedule 6 shall not
be parked in any part of the same road within one hour after the expiry of the
period permitted under paragraph (1).
(3) When
a vehicle is parked on a road specified in Schedule 6, a parking disc or
parking card, indicating the time at which the vehicle arrived there, shall be
displayed against the internal face of the windscreen of the vehicle, or, if
the vehicle has no windscreen, at a convenient place on the left or near side
of the vehicle, in such a manner that the arrival time of the vehicle may be
distinctly seen by any person outside the vehicle.
(4) When
a vehicle is parked on a road specified in Schedule 6, no person
shall –
(a) display
more than one parking disc or parking card on the vehicle;
(b) indicate
on the parking disc or parking card a time different from that at which the
vehicle was parked;
(c) alter
the time of arrival indicated on a parking disc whilst the vehicle is parked on
that road.
(5) In
this Article –
“parking” means
leaving a vehicle, whether attended or unattended, between the hours of
8.00 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. on any day other than a Sunday, and includes
stopping a vehicle to load or unload goods or merchandise, but does not include
stopping a vehicle to set down or pick up passengers;
“parking card”
means a device of a type and design approved by the Minister under Article 64
of the Road Traffic (Jersey) Law 1956;
“parking disc”
means a parking disc of the kind described in Article 19 of the Road Traffic (St. Helier) (Jersey) Order 1996.
8 Duration
of parking on certain roads
A vehicle shall not be
parked on a road specified in Schedule 5 for a total period exceeding 12
hours in any continuous period of 24 hours.
PART 4
MISCELLANEOUS
9 Citation
This Order may be cited
as the Road Traffic (St. Saviour) (Jersey) Order 2000.