Policing of Roads
(Jersey) Regulations 1959
1 Interpretation[1]
In these
Regulations –
“article or thing”
includes any living thing;
“authorized
person” means, in relation to a road –
(a) a
person appointed by the Connétable of the parish in which the road is
situated to be an authorized person for the purposes of these Regulations; and
(b) a
police officer;
“public service
vehicle” has the same meaning as in the Motor Traffic (Jersey)
Law 1935;
“road” means
any public road or 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.
2 Prohibited acts
(1) 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) deposit
for collection by a parish authority any household or commercial refuse unless
it is contained in a receptacle which is suitable for the purpose and which,
without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, adequately protects the
refuse from disturbance by domestic animals, birds or rodents;
(d) permit
any animal to foul a footpath;
(e) deface
the surface of the road or of any public property or building abutting thereon
by writing or other marks;
(f) within
the parish of St. Helier deposit mud by the use of any vehicle of which the
person is in charge;
(g) handle,
destroy, cut or injure any tree, shrub, leaf, plant, flower, fruit, seed or
exhibit, or pluck or take away or have in the person’s possession, after
being so plucked or taken away, any bough, shrub, leaf, plant, flower, fruit,
seed or exhibit;
(h) cause
any obstruction to free passage;
(i) station
any vehicle with a view to trading therefrom;
(j) inconvenience
any other person with the offer of any article or thing for sale or the
provision of any service;
(k) throw
or discharge any stone or missile or light any fire or firework;
(l) roller-skate
or skateboard;
(m) foul the
road with saliva, mucus or other excrement;
(n) fail
to remove forthwith from the road any faeces deposited by a dog of which the
person is in charge (not being a guide dog in the charge of a blind person),
for the purposes of which it shall be a sufficient removal if the faeces are
hygienically disposed of in a receptacle provided for the deposit of litter;
(o) 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;
(p) 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.[2]
(2) Paragraph (1)(o)
of this Regulation, insofar as it requires a dog to be kept on a lead, shall
not apply to a dog which is being worked under the control of a police officer
or an officer of the Impôts in the course of the officer’s duty.[3]
3 Acts
for which written permission is required
(1) Subject
to the provisions of this Regulation, no person shall, on any road, except with
the written permission, previously obtained, of the Connétable 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 Connétable may think fit to impose, and may at any time be withdrawn
by the Connétable.
3A Authorized
persons[4]
(1) A
Connétable must issue each authorized person it appoints with an
identity card that –
(a) contains
the name of the authorized person; and
(b) states
that the person is an authorized person for the purposes of these Regulations.
(2) If
an authorized person reasonably believes that a person has contravened any of
the provisions of these Regulations or contravened or failed to comply with any
condition subject to which any permission under these Regulations is granted,
the authorized person may require the person to give the person’s name
and address.
(3) In
the case of an authorized person appointed by a Connétable, before
requiring a person’s name and address under paragraph (2), the
authorized person shall show his or her identity card to the person.
(4) A
person who is required to give his or her name and address under paragraph (2)
must give the authorized person his or her true name and address.
4 Penalty for offences
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, the person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the
standard scale. [5]
5 Application of fines levied summarily[6]
All
fines for offences against these Regulations which are levied summarily by a
Centenier in exercise of powers conferred upon the Centenier by Article 1
of the Policing of Roads, Parks and
Sea Beaches (Application of Fines) (Jersey) Law 1957, 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 that parish.
6 Saving
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.
7 Citation
These Regulations may be cited as the Policing of Roads (Jersey)
Regulations 1959.