Policing of Roads (Jersey) Regulations 1959

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, 1851,1 Article 49 of the Road Traffic (Jersey) Law, 1956,2 and the Policing of Roads, Parks and Sea Beaches (Application of Fines) (Jersey) Law, 1957,3 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;4

[“road” means any public road and any public place, but excludes any place to which the Policing of Beaches (Jersey) Regulations, 1959,5 or the Policing of Parks (Jersey) Regulations, 1962,6 apply;]7

“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],8 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.]9

 

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.



1        Recueil des Lois, Tomes I–III, page 196.

2        See now Recueil des Lois, Tome 1961–1962, page 583.

3        Recueil des Lois, Tome 1957–1960, page 175.

4        Recueil des Lois, Tome VII, page 456.

5        No. 4045.

6        No. 4332.

7        Definition substituted by No. 4332.

8        Words substituted by No. 5351.

9        Paragraph inserted by No. 5351.


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