Road Traffic (St.
Lawrence) (Jersey) Order 1990[1]
THE ENVIRONMENT
AND PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE, in pursuance of Articles 62,
63, 64 and 84 of the Road
Traffic (Jersey) Law 1956 and after consultation with the Connétable
of St. Lawrence[2], orders as follows –
Commencement [see endnotes]
PART 1
INTRODUCTORY
1 Application
This Order applies to roads in the parish of St. Lawrence.
2 Interpretation[3]
In this Order, unless the
context otherwise requires –
“Connétable” means the Connétable of St. Lawrence;
“holiday”
means Christmas Day, Easter Day, or a public holiday appointed under the Public
Holidays and Bank Holidays (Jersey) Law 1951;
“Motor Traffic Law”
means the Motor
Traffic (Jersey) Law 1935;
“parking”
means leaving a vehicle, whether attended or unattended –
(a) between
the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on any day other than a Sunday, on any
road specified in Schedule 6;
(b) on
any day other than a Sunday, on any road specified in Schedule 7; or
(c) on
any road specified in Schedule 8,
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 disc”
means something referred to as a parking disc in Article 18;
“road”
includes part of a road.
PART 2
TRAFFIC CIRCULATION
3 One-way
traffic
A vehicle being driven on
a road specified in the first column of Schedule 1 shall, between the
point of its entry therein and its departure therefrom, follow the direction
prescribed in relation to that road in the second column of that Schedule.
4 Restriction
or prohibition of turns
(1) A
vehicle which is being driven on a road specified in the first column of Part 1
of Schedule 2 shall not, at any point specified in relation to that road
in the second column of that Part, be turned so as to face in the opposite
direction to that in which it was proceeding.
(2) A
vehicle shall not be driven from a road specified in the first column of Part 2
of Schedule 2 into a road specified opposite that road in the second
column of that Part.
(3) Paragraph (2)
shall not apply to an omnibus.
(4) In
this Article, “omnibus” has the same meaning as under the Motor
Traffic Law.
5 Prohibition
of waiting and stopping
(1) A
vehicle shall not –
(a) wait
on any road specified in the first and second columns of Part 1 of Schedule 3;
(b) wait
on any road specified in the first and second columns of Part 2 of that Schedule
between the hours of 9 am and 6 pm for a longer period than that specified in
relation to that road in the second column.
(2) A
vehicle shall not wait on a road within 10 yards of its junction with another
road.
(3) A
vehicle, other than a public service vehicle of the appropriate class, shall
not stop on any part of a road which is authorized under Article 37 of the
Motor Traffic Law as a stand for public service vehicles.
(4) A
vehicle shall not wait on any part of a road which has been designated as a no
waiting area for the purpose of allowing access to any premises from that part
of that road.
(5) The
expression “waiting” in this Article does not include the stopping
of a vehicle to set down or pick up passengers.
6 Closing
of roads to through traffic
No vehicle shall be
driven on a road specified in the first and second columns of Schedule 4,
except to or from any land or premises having a means of vehicular access from
that road.
7 Driving
and stationing of certain vehicles[4]
(1) Except
with the permission in writing of the Connétable or on the express
direction of a police officer, no char-à-banc shall be driven on a road
specified in the first and second columns of Part 1 of Schedule 5.[5]
(2) Except
with the permission in writing of the Connétable or on the express
direction of a police officer, a char-à-banc being driven on a road
specified in the first column of Part 2 of Schedule 5 shall, between
its point of entry thereon and its point of departure therefrom, follow the
direction prescribed in relation to that road in the second column of that Part.[6]
(3) Except
with the permission in writing of the Connétable, no char-à-banc
shall be stationed on any road.
(4) Except
on the express direction of a police officer, no cab shall be stationed on any
road:
Provided that this paragraph
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) No
vehicle, the overall width of which exceeds 6 feet 6 inches, shall be driven on
a road specified in the first and second columns of Part 3 of Schedule 5
unless it is –
(a) being
driven to or from any premises situated on or adjacent to that road;
(b) a
vehicle engaged in mechanical road sweeping or road gully cleaning; or
(c) being
used for fire brigade, ambulance, police or other emergency purposes.[7]
(6) In
this Article, “cab” and “char-à-banc” have the
same respective meanings as under the Motor Traffic Law.
PART 3[8]
PARKING PLACES ON ROADS
8 Interpretation[9]
(1) In
this Part –
“Law” means
the Road
Traffic (Jersey) Law 1956;
“parking card”
means a device of a type and design approved by the Minister for Infrastructure
under Article 64 of the Law;
“paying parking
place” means a road designated as a paying parking place under Article 9;
“valid parking
card” means a parking card which identifies for the purposes of this Order
the commencement of the period when the vehicle on which it is displayed is
left in a paying parking place by means of clear and appropriate indications by
or on behalf of the driver of –
(a) the
month;
(b) the
date in the month;
(c) the
day of the week; and
(d) the
next succeeding 5 minute index within the hour of the day at which the vehicle
was first left in the paying parking place;
“vehicle”
excludes a vehicle the overall width of which exceeds 6 feet 6 inches and a
bicycle not propelled by mechanical power.[10]
(2) For
the purposes of this Order a vehicle shall be regarded as displaying a parking
card when the card is displayed either against the internal face of the
windscreen or against the internal face of a side window adjacent to the
windscreen on the left or near side of the vehicle, or, if the vehicle has no
windscreen, at a convenient place on the left or nearside of the vehicle, in
such manner that the month, date, day and time of arrival of the vehicle may be
distinctly seen by any person from outside the vehicle.
9 Designation
of paying parking places[11]
(1) A
road or part of a road specified in Schedule 6 is designated as a paying
parking place at which a vehicle that displays a parking card in accordance
with Articles 8 and 10 may be parked for the period of time specified in
paragraph (2).
(2) Subject
to Article 2(2)(a) of the Road
Traffic (Disabled Persons) (Parking) (Jersey) Order 2002, the
maximum period for which a vehicle may be parked at a paying parking place
is –
(a) in
the case of a paying parking place specified in Part 1 of the Schedule,
20 minutes; and
(b) in
the case of a paying parking place specified in Part 2 of the Schedule,
1 hour.
10 Conditions and
restrictions on vehicles left in paying parking places[12]
(1) No
vehicle shall be left at a paying parking place except as provided in, and in
accordance with, this Order.
(2) Except
as provided in this Order, no vehicle shall be parked at a paying parking place
unless the charge prescribed in Article 13 has been paid.
(3) A
vehicle shall not be parked at a paying parking place for longer than the
maximum period of time referred to in Article 9(2).
(4) A
vehicle which has been parked at a paying parking place shall not return to any
part of the same paying parking place within one hour of its departure.
(5) Where
a vehicle has been parked at a paying parking place displaying a parking card
no person may remove the parking card and substitute another parking card for
the purpose of indicating that the vehicle was left there at a time later than
the time when the vehicle was first left there.
(6) Subject
to paragraph (7), no person shall use any vehicle which is parked at a
paying parking place for or in connection with the sale of any goods or merchandise
to any other person in or near the paying parking place or in connection with
the selling or offering for sale of the person’s skill in handicraft or the
person’s services in any other capacity.
(7) Paragraph (6)
does not apply to a vehicle parked at a paying parking place for the purpose of
being loaded or unloaded in connection with any trade or business carried on in
the vicinity.
(8) Where
parking spaces are marked in a paying parking place a vehicle shall be parked
wholly within the limits of a marked space and shall not obstruct the entry or
exit of other vehicles from or to adjacent marked spaces.
11 Determination of
size and number of parking spaces and marking of parking places[13]
(1) The
Minister for Infrastructure may determine the dimensions and the number of the
spaces in which vehicles may be left in a paying parking place.[14]
(2) The
limits of any paying parking place or any parking space within any such place
may be marked on the road or indicated by such signs or road markings as the Minister
for Infrastructure may deem fit.[15]
12 Parking card to
be displayed on vehicles left in paying parking places[16]
While a vehicle is parked
at a paying parking place a valid parking card shall be displayed and no person
shall –
(a) display
more than one parking card on the vehicle; or
(b) alter
the time of arrival indicated on the parking card whilst the vehicle is parked
at that place.
13 Charges at paying
parking places[17]
(1) The
charge for parking a vehicle at a paying parking place shall be -
(a) if
the vehicle complies with Article 2 of the Road
Traffic (Disabled Persons) (Parking) (Jersey) Order 2002, one parking unit for each period of 2 hours or part of 2 hours;
and
(b) in
any other case, one parking unit for each period of one hour or part of one
hour.[18]
(2) In
paragraph (1) “parking unit” has the same meaning as in the Road
Traffic (Public Parking Places) (Jersey) Order 2004.
14 Payment of
charges[19]
The charge for parking at
a paying parking place shall be paid by the purchase in advance of a parking
card from a person for the time being authorized by the Minister for Infrastructure
to sell parking cards.
15 Use of parking
card to indicate that charge has been paid[20]
The payment of a charge
shall be indicated by the display on the vehicle of the valid parking card
showing the day and time of arrival of the vehicle at the paying parking place.
16 Alteration of
position of vehicles and removal of vehicles in emergency[21]
(1) Where
any vehicle is parked in a paying parking place in contravention of Article 10(8)
a police officer may alter or cause to be altered the position of that vehicle
in order that its position shall comply with that paragraph.
(2) A
police officer may move or cause to be moved to such place as the police
officer thinks fit any vehicle left in a paying parking place if, in the police
officer’s opinion, the movement of that vehicle is necessary in the
course of an emergency.
(3) The
powers conferred by this Article shall be in addition to and not in derogation
of the powers contained in Article 56 of the Law and any Order made
thereunder.
17 Duration of
parking on certain roads[22]
A vehicle must not be
parked on a road specified in Schedule 7 for a total period exceeding
12 hours in any continuous period of 24 hours.
part 4[23]
disc parking
18 Parking
discs
(1) For
the purposes of this Part, parking discs shall be issued by the
Connétable and each parking disc shall comply with the following
conditions –
(a) the
disc is composed of 2 pieces of pale yellow cardboard enclosing 3 pieces
of red cardboard pivoted about the same centre and having figures printed on
them that are revealed through a row of 3 apertures cut into one of the
pieces of yellow cardboard;
(b) the
left-hand aperture shows hours, the centre aperture tens of minutes, and the
right-hand aperture units of minutes.
(2) A
parking disc that complies with the conditions set out in paragraph (1) may
contain advertising that is confined to such parts of the disc as the
Connétable may determine.
19 Parking
of vehicles displaying parking discs[24]
(1) A
vehicle must not, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on any day –
(a) except
a Sunday or holiday, be parked for longer than 3 hours on a part of a
road, being a part specified in column 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 8
opposite the description of the road specified in column 1 of that Part of
the Schedule; and
(b) be
parked for longer than 20 minutes on a part of a road, being a part
specified in column 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 8 opposite the
description of the road specified in column 1 of that Part of the Schedule.
(2) A
vehicle that has been parked between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on any
day –
(a) except
a Sunday or holiday, on a part of a road, being a part specified in Part 1
of Schedule 8, shall not return to that part of the same road within one
hour of its departure from the part if the time of its return would fall
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on any day except a Sunday or holiday; and
(b) on a
part of a road, being a part specified in Part 2 of Schedule 8, shall
not return to that part of the same road within one hour of its departure from
the part if the time of its return would fall between 8 a.m. and
5 p.m..
20 Indication of
time on, and display of, parking discs[25]
(1) This
Article applies where a vehicle is parked on a part of a road, being a part
specified in –
(a) Part 1
of Schedule 8, during any period that falls between 8 a.m. and
5 p.m. on any day except a Sunday or holiday; and
(b) Part 2
of Schedule 8, during any period that falls between 8 a.m. and
5 p.m. on any day.
(2) Where
this Article applies –
(a) a
parking disc indicating the time at which the vehicle arrived there must be displayed –
(i) against the
internal face of the windscreen of the vehicle, or
(ii) if
the vehicle has no windscreen, at a convenient place on the left or near side
of the vehicle, in such manner that the time of arrival of the vehicle may be
distinctly seen by any person outside the vehicle; and
(b) a
person must not during that period –
(i) display more than
one parking disc on the vehicle,
(ii) indicate
on the parking disc a time different from that at which the vehicle arrived, or
(iii) while
the vehicle is parked on that part of the road, alter the time of arrival
indicated on the parking disc to a time different from that at which the
vehicle arrived.
PART 5[26]
MISCELLANEOUS
21 Savings
(1) Articles 5
and 6 shall not apply to any vehicle while it is being used for fire brigade,
ambulance, police or other emergency purposes.
(2) Article 5
shall not apply –
(a) so as
to prevent a public service vehicle waiting on a part of any road which is
authorized in accordance with Article 37 of the Motor Traffic Law as a
stand for public service vehicles;
(b) to a
vehicle waiting on any road while any gate or other barrier at the entrance to
premises to which the vehicle requires access or from which it has emerged, is
being opened or closed, if it is not reasonable for the vehicle to wait
otherwise than on that road while such gate or barrier is being opened or
closed;
(c) to a
vehicle waiting on any road on the express direction or with the specific
permission of a police officer; or
(d) to a
vehicle stopping on any road owing to the driver being prevented from
proceeding by circumstances beyond the driver’s control or to a vehicle
stopping in order to avoid an accident.
22 Citation
This Order may be cited
as the Road Traffic (St. Lawrence) (Jersey) Order 1990.