The A4042 Trunk Road (Cwmbran Roundabout, Torfaen to Little Mill Junction, Monmouthshire) (Temporary Traffic Prohibitions and Restrictions) Order 2024
| Year | 2024 |
2024 No. 25 (W. 8)
ROAD TRAFFIC, WALES
The A4042 Trunk Road (Cwmbran Roundabout, Torfaen to Little Mill Junction, Monmouthshire) (Temporary Traffic Prohibitions and Restrictions) Order 2024
Made 9January 2024
Coming into force 15January 2024
The Welsh Ministers, as traffic authority for the A4042 trunk road, are satisfied that traffic on a specified length of the trunk road should be prohibited and/or restricted because of works proposed on or near the road.
The Welsh Ministers, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 14(1), (4) and (7) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1), make this Order.
Title and commencement
1. The title of this Order is the A4042 Trunk Road
(Cwmbran Roundabout, Torfaen to Little Mill
Junction, Monmouthshire) (Temporary Traffic
Prohibitions and Restrictions) Order 2024 and this
Order comes into force on 15 January 2024.
Interpretation
2. In this Order—
“exempted vehicle” (“cerbyd esempt”) means—
(1) 1984 c. 27; section 14 was substituted by the Road Traffic
(Temporary Restrictions) Act 1991 (c. 26), section 1(1) and
Schedule 1. By virtue of S.I. 1999/672, and section 162 of,
and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of
Wales Act 2006 (c. 32), these functions are now exercisable
by the Welsh Ministers in relation to Wales.
(a) any vehicle being used for the purposes
described in section 87 of the Road Traffic
Regulation Act 1984(1) or in connection with
the works giving rise to this Order;
(b) any vehicle being used for naval, military or
air force purposes and being driven by a
person for the time being subject to the orders
of a member of the armed forces of the
Crown, who is a member of the special
forces—
(i) in response, or for practice in responding,
to a national security emergency by a
person who has been trained in driving at
high speeds; or
(ii) for the purpose of training a person in
driving vehicles at high speeds;
“special forces” (“lluoedd arbennig”) means those
units of the armed forces the maintenance of
whose capabilities is the responsibility of the
Director of Special Forces or which are for the
time being subject to the operational command of
that Director;
“the trunk road” (“y gefnffordd”) means the
A4042 Newport to Shrewsbury Trunk Road;
“works period” (“cyfnod y gwaith”) means
intermittent periods commencing at 00:01 hours on
15 January 2024 and ending when the temporary
traffic signs for each period of works have been
removed.
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