Jersey R & O 4046
POLICING OF ROADS (JERSEY) REGULATIONS, 1959.
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(Promulgated on the 4th day of
April, 1959).
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STATES OF JERSEY.
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The 31st day of
March, 1959.
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THE STATES, in exercise of the powers conferred
upon them by the Order in Council of the twenty-sixth day of December, 1851, Article 49 of the Road Traffic (Jersey) Law, 1956, and the Policing of Roads, Parks and Sea Beaches
(Application of Fines) (Jersey) Law, 1957, have made
the following Regulations: -
INTERPRETATION
1. In
these Regulations –
“article or thing” includes any living thing;
“public service vehicle” has the same meaning as in the
Motor Traffic (Jersey) Law, 1935;
[“road” means any public road and any public place, but
excludes any place to which the Policing of Beaches (Jersey) Regulations, 1959, or the Policing of Parks (Jersey) Regulations,
1962, apply;]
“trading” means the selling, or exposing or offering
for sale, of any article or thing, or the provision of, or the offering to
provide, any service for a consideration.
PROHIBITED ACTS
2. No
person shall, on any road –
(a) behave or be clothed in
any manner reasonably likely to offend against public decency;
(b) deposit, throw down or
leave (otherwise than in a receptacle provided for the purpose) any bottle,
tin, container, glass, crockery, paper, wrapper or any refuse of any nature
whatsoever;
(c) permit any animal to
foul a footpath;
(d) deface the surface of
the road or of any public property or building abutting thereon by writing or
other marks;
(e) handle, destroy, cut or
injure any tree, shrub, leaf, plant, flower, fruit, seed or exhibit, or pluck
or take away or have in his possession, after being so plucked or taken away,
any bough, shrub, leaf, plant, flower, fruit, seed or exhibit;
(f) cause any
obstruction to free passage;
(g) station any vehicle
with a view to trading therefrom;
(h) inconvenience any other
person with the offer of any article or thing for sale or the provision of any
service;
(j) throw or discharge
any stone or missile or light any fire or firework;
(k) roller-skate;
(l) foul the road
with saliva, mucus or other excrement;
(m) within the area enclosed by
and including the Esplanade, Peirson Road, Cheapside, Elizabeth Place, Rouge
Bouillon, Springfield Road, Janvrin Road, St. Mark’s Road, St.
Saviour’s Road, Pleasant Street, Clarence Road, Don Road, Colomberie,
[Grenville Street, Green Street, Route du Fort and Weighbridge], permit a dog to stray on the road or, when
accompanied by a dog, keep the dog otherwise than on a lead.
[(n) destroy, damage or interfere with
any equipment placed on or near the road and intended for use in case of
accident, fire or other emergency.]
ACTS FOR WHICH WRITTEN PERMISSION IS REQUIRED
3.-(1) Subject to the provisions of this
Regulation, no person shall, on any road, except with the written permission,
previously obtained, of the Constable of the Parish in which the road is
situate –
(a) place or exhibit any
display or representation;
(b) organize or conduct any
parade or procession;
(c) play any musical
instrument for reward;
(d) erect or use any
apparatus for the transmission, reception, reproduction or amplification of
sound, speech or images by electrical or mechanical means, except apparatus
designed and used as an aid to defective hearing and apparatus used in a
vehicle so as not to produce sound audible by a person outside the vehicle.
(2) Any
permission under this Regulation may be granted subject to such conditions as
the Constable may think fit to impose, and may at any time be withdrawn by the
Constable.
PENALTY FOR OFFENCES
4. If
any person contravenes any of the provisions of these Regulations or
contravenes or fails to comply with any condition subject to which any
permission under these Regulations is granted, he shall be liable to a fine not
exceeding two pounds.
POWER TO LEVY FINES SUMMARILY
5.-(1) Any fine for an offence against these
Regulations may be imposed and levied summarily by the Constable or a Centenier
of the parish in which the offence was committed:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply where the offender
refuses to accept the decision of the Constable or Centenier.
(2) Where
any fine is levied by a Constable or Centenier in pursuance of the powers
conferred on him by this Regulation, he shall give a receipt for the same.
APPLICATION OF FINES
6. All
fines imposed for offences against these Regulations shall be awarded for the
benefit of the parish in which the offence was committed and shall be applied
towards the cost of maintenance of the by-roads of the parish.
SAVING
7. Nothing
in these Regulations shall be deemed to repeal or affect the provisions of any
other enactment, but so that a person shall not be punished twice for the same
offence.
CITATION AND COMMENCEMENT
8.-(1) These Regulations may be cited as the
Policing of Roads (Jersey) Regulations, 1959.
(2) These
Regulations shall come into force on the twelfth day of April, 1959.
To be printed, published and posted.
F. de
L. BOIS,
Greffier of the States.