Road Traffic (St.
Clement) (Jersey) Order 1987
THE ENVIRONMENT
AND PUBLIC SERVICES COMMITTEE, in pursuance of Articles 62
and 84 of the Road
Traffic (Jersey) Law 1956 and after consultation with the
Connétable of St. Clement, orders as follows –
Commencement [see endnotes]
1 Application
This Order applies to roads in the parish
of St. Clement.
2 One-way traffic
Every vehicle entering any length of 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 length
of road in the second column of the said Schedule.
3 Prohibition of waiting
(1) No
person shall cause or permit a vehicle to wait on any lengths of road specified
in Schedule 2.
(2) No
person shall cause or permit a vehicle to wait on any part of any road which is
within 10 yards of the junction of that road with another road.
(3) No
person shall cause or permit a vehicle to wait on any part of any road which is
authorized in accordance with Article 37 of the Motor Traffic (Jersey)
Law 1935, as a stand for public service vehicles.
(4) No
person shall cause or permit a vehicle the width of which exceeds 6 feet 6
inches to wait on any length of road specified in Schedule 6.[1]
(5) No
person shall cause or permit a vehicle to wait for a period in excess of 12
hours in any 24 hours on any length of road specified in Schedule 7.[2]
4 Parking discs
(1) No
person shall leave a vehicle, whether attended or unattended, between the hours
of 8 am and 5.30 pm on any day other than Sunday, on a road or part of a road
listed in Schedule 3 –
(a) for
a period in excess of 2 hours;
(b) without
displaying a parking disc in accordance with paragraph (3).[3]
(2) For
the purposes of this Article, each parking disc shall comply generally with the
following conditions –
It shall be composed of 2
pieces of pale yellow cardboard enclosing 3 red cardboard discs each pivoted
about its centre on which shall be printed figures which shall be revealed
through 3 apertures cut into one of the pieces of yellow cardboard. The left
hand aperture shall reveal the hour, the centre aperture the tens of minutes,
and the right hand aperture the minutes, of the time of arrival at the parking
place.
(3) When
a vehicle is left as described in paragraph (1), a parking disc,
indicating the time at which the vehicle arrived there shall be displayed
against the internal face of the windscreen of the vehicle, or, if the vehicle
has no windscreen, at a convenient place on the left or near side, in such
manner that the arrival time of the vehicle may be distinctly seen by any person
outside the vehicle.
(4) When
a vehicle is left as aforesaid no person shall –
(a) display
more than one parking disc on the vehicle;
(b) indicate
on the parking disc a time different from that at which the vehicle was first
parked on that road;
(c) alter the time of arrival indicated on the parking
disc whilst the vehicle is parked on any part of that road during the 2 hour
period permitted under paragraph (1)(a); or
(d) park in any part of the same road within one
hour after the expiry of the 2 hour period permitted under paragraph (1)(a).[4]
5 Closing of roads to
through traffic
(1) Subject
to the provisions of paragraph (2), no person shall drive or cause or
permit to be driven any vehicle on any of the roads or parts of a road
specified in the first column of Schedule 4 during the times specified in
relation thereto in the second column of Schedule 4.
(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall prevent
the driving on any of the said specified roads or parts of a road
of –
(a) any
vehicle which is being used for the purpose of access to any premises situated
alongside the said specified roads or parts of a road;
(b) an
omnibus (within the meaning of the Motor Traffic Law) in
the course of providing a service authorized by an omnibus service licence granted under Article 19 of the Motor Traffic Law;
(c) a
vehicle being used for fire brigade, ambulance, police or other emergency
purposes;
(d) pedal
cycles.[5]
6 Public service vehicles
(1) No
person shall, except on the direction or with the permission of a police
officer, drive, or cause or permit to be driven, any char-à-banc within
the meaning of the Motor
Traffic (Jersey) Law 1935, on any road or lengths of road specified in
Schedule 5 to this Order.
(2) Except
with the permission of the Connétable of St. Clement, no person shall
station or cause to permit to be stationed, on any road any char-à-banc.
(3) 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.
(4) In
this Article “cab” and “char-à-banc” have the
same respective meanings as under the Motor Traffic (Jersey)
Law 1935.
6A Roads
closed to wide vehicles[6]
If a vehicle’s overall width exceeds 6 feet 6 inches
it must not be driven on a road specified in the first and second columns of
Schedule 6A unless –
(a) it
is being driven to or from any premises situated on or adjacent to that road;
(b) it
is a vehicle engaged in mechanical road sweeping or road gully cleaning; or
(c) it
is being used for fire and rescue, ambulance or other emergency purposes.
7 Saving[7]
Nothing in Article 3 or 4 applies –
(a) so
as to prevent a vehicle waiting on any road for so long as may be necessary to
enable the vehicle, if it cannot be used for such purpose without waiting on
that road, to be used in connection with any building operation or demolition
work, the removal of any obstruction or potential obstruction to traffic, the
maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of that road or the erection,
laying, placing, maintenance, testing, alteration, repair or removal of any
structure, works or apparatus in, on, under or over that road;
(b) to
any vehicle whilst it is being used for the fire brigade, ambulance or police
purposes;
(c) to
any vehicle being used for the purpose of delivering or collecting postal
packets as defined in Article 1 of the Post Office (Jersey) Law 1969;
(d) 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 (Jersey)
Law 1935, as a stand for public service vehicles;
(e) so
as to prevent a vehicle waiting on any road for so long as may be necessary to
enable the vehicle, if it cannot be used for such purpose without waiting on
that road, to be used in connection with the collection of household refuse from,
or the clearing of cesspools at, premises situated on or adjacent to that road;
(f) 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 reasonably practicable for the vehicle
to wait otherwise than on that road while such gate or barrier is being opened
or closed;
(g) to
a vehicle waiting on any road on the express direction or with the specific
permission of a police officer.
8 Citation
This Order may be cited as the Road Traffic (St. Clement) (Jersey)
Order 1987.