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Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
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[F1124B Orders of the Authority changing what are GLA side roads.E+W+S
(1) The Mayor of London shall keep under review the roads and proposed roads which have junctions with GLA roads or with other roads having such junctions and shall consider the extent to which such roads should be or cease to be GLA side roads.
(2)If the Mayor of London considers it expedient—
(a) that any road or proposed road in Greater London, other than a trunk road or other road for which the Secretary of State [F2or a strategic highways company] is the highway authority, should become a GLA side road, or
(b) that any GLA side road should cease to be such a road and should become a road for which the traffic authority is a London borough council or the Common Council of the City of London,
the Greater London Authority may by order direct that that road or proposed road shall become, or (as the case may be) that that GLA side road shall cease to be, a GLA side road as from such date as may be specified in that behalf in the order.
(3) Where an order under subsection (2) above directs that a road or proposed road shall become a GLA side road, it shall become such a road as from the date specified in that behalf in the order.
(4) Where an order under subsection (2) above directs that a GLA side road shall cease to be such a road, then, as from the date specified in that behalf in the order, the road shall cease to be a GLA side road and the following authority, that is to say—
(a)where the road is situated in a London borough, the council for the London borough, and
(b)where the road is situated in the City of London, the Common Council of the City of London,
shall become the traffic authority for the road.
(5)An order under subsection (2) above shall be of no effect unless—
(a)it is made with the consent of the relevant traffic authority; or
(b)if that consent is refused, it is confirmed (with or without modification) by the Secretary of State.
(6)For the purposes of subsection (5) above, the relevant traffic authority is—
(a) in the case of an order directing that a road or proposed road shall become a GLA side road, the authority that is the traffic authority for the road or proposed road; and
(b) in the case of an order directing that a GLA side road shall cease to be such a road, the authority that will become the traffic authority for the road in consequence of the order.
(7)An order under subsection (2) above may vary, revoke or re-enact with or without modifications—
(a)any other order under that subsection (whether or not that other order was confirmed by the Secretary of State); or
(b)an order of the Secretary of State under section 124A(1) of this Act.
(8) Where a GLA side road becomes a GLA road it shall cease to be a GLA side road.
(9) In this section, notwithstanding section 142(4) of this Act, a reference to a GLA road does not include a reference to a GLA side road. ]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 124B, 124C inserted (1.10.2000) by S.I. 2000/2237, art. 2(4), Sch.
F2Words in s. 124B(2)(a) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 98; S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
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