Highways (Road
Humps) (Jersey) Regulations 2002[1]
1 Interpretation
(1) In
these Regulations –
“Minister”
means the Minister for Infrastructure;
“road hump”
means an artificial hump on a highway that is designed to control the speed of
vehicles on the highway;
“Pedestrian
Crossings Order” means the Road
Traffic (Pedestrian Crossings) (Jersey) Order 1982;
“Traffic Signs Order”
means the Traffic
Signs (Jersey) Order 1968.[2]
(2) In
these Regulations road humps on a highway are a series of humps if there are at
least 2 humps and each hump is not less than 20 metres or more than
150 metres from the one next to it.
2 Consultation
A highway authority must
not construct a road hump on a highway for which it is the highway authority
unless it has, in the case of a by-road, consulted the Minister or, in the case
of a main road, consulted the Connétable of the parish.
3 Circumstances
in which road humps may be constructed
Except as provided by Regulation
6, a highway authority must not construct a road hump on a highway unless –
(a) the
highway has street lighting that the Minister considers adequate; or
(b) lighting
approved by the Minister is specially provided for the hump.
4 Nature,
dimensions, location and spacing of road humps
(1) A
highway authority must not construct a road hump that –
(a) does
not comply with one of the sets of specifications in the Schedule; and
(b) except
in the case of a road hump constructed on a highway with a speed limit of 20
miles an hour or less, is not at right angles to an imaginary line along the
centre of the carriageway of the highway in which it is constructed.
(2) A
road hump is to be taken to comply with one of the sets of specifications in
the Schedule if –
(a) in
the case of a vertical measurement, it varies from the corresponding
measurement in the specification by no more than 12 millimetres; or
(b) in
the case of a horizontal measurement, it varies by no more than 5%.
(3) Except
as provided by paragraph (4), a highway authority must not construct a
road hump –
(a) within
the limits of a zebra controlled area, as defined in Article 1(1) of the Pedestrian
Crossings Order, or within 30 metres from the imaginary line along the centre
of the pattern of black and white stripes specified in Schedule 2 to that Order;
or
(b) within
the limits of a pelican crossing as defined in Article 1(1) of the Pedestrian
Crossings Order or within 30 metres of a part of such a crossing.
(4) A
highway authority may construct a road hump of a type that complies with the
specifications shown in diagram No. 3 in the Schedule –
(a) so
that an imaginary line along the centre of the hump from one side of the highway
to the other is in the same position as an imaginary line from one side of the highway
to the other along the centre of the pattern of black and white stripes
specified in Schedule 2 to the Pedestrian Crossings Order; or
(b) along
the centre of the limits of the crossing as specified in Schedule 5 to
that Order.
5 Placing
of traffic signs
(1) Except
as provided by Regulation 6, the highway authority of a highway must place and
maintain the following traffic signs in respect of a road hump it constructs in
the highway, namely –
(a) traffic
sign No. 557.1 in combination with traffic sign No. 557.2, 557.3 or 557.4
placed in positions the Minister considers provide adequate warning to people
using the highway of the presence of the road hump or series of road humps;
(b) except
in a case mentioned in sub-paragraph (c), traffic signs Nos. 1060 and
1060.1 or Nos. 1061 and 1061.1 on the road hump or on each hump in a series of
humps;
(c) in
respect of a road hump placed on a highway in accordance with Regulation 4(4)(a),
traffic sign No. 544 facing traffic approaching the pedestrian crossing
together with traffic sign No. 547.5;
(d) in
respect of a road hump placed on a highway in accordance with Regulation 4(4)(b),
traffic sign No. 543 facing traffic approaching the pedestrian crossing
together with traffic sign No. 547.5.
(2) In
this Regulation a reference to a road sign by number is a reference to the road
sign shown in the diagram so numbered in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 to
the Traffic Signs Order.
6 Humps
on highways with a speed limit of 20 miles an hour or less
If a road hump is
constructed on a highway with a speed limit of 20 miles an hour or less the
Highway Authority may decide, after consulting the Minister, that either Regulation
3 or 5, but not both, shall not apply in respect of the road hump.
7 Citation
These Regulations may be
cited as the Highways (Road Humps) (Jersey) Regulations 2002.