The A40/A449 Trunk Roads (West of Glangrwyney, Powys to Raglan, Monmouthshire & Raglan to the Wales/England Border, Monmouthshire) (Temporary Traffic Prohibitions & Restrictions) Order 2024
| Year | 2024 |
2024 No. 68 (W. 18)
ROAD TRAFFIC, WALES
The A40/A449 Trunk Roads (West of Glangrwyney, Powys to Raglan, Monmouthshire & Raglan to the Wales/England Border, Monmouthshire) (Temporary Traffic Prohibitions & Restrictions) Order 2024
Made 22January 2024
Coming into force 29January 2024
The Welsh Ministers, as traffic authority for the A40 trunk road and the relevant length of the A40/A449 trunk road, are satisfied that traffic on specified lengths of the trunk roads should be prohibited and/or restricted because of works proposed on or near the roads.
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 A40/A449 Trunk
Roads (West of Glangrwyney, Powys to Raglan,
Monmouthshire & Raglan to the Wales/England
Border, Monmouthshire) (Temporary Traffic
Prohibitions & Restrictions) Order 2024 and this Order
comes into force on 29 January 2024.
(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.
Interpretation
2. In this Order—
“exempted vehicle” (“cerbyd esempt”) means—
(a) any vehicle being used for the purposes
described in section 87 of the Road Traffic
Regulation Act 1984(1);
(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(s)” (“y gefnffordd/cefnffyrdd”)
means the A40/A449 Newport to Worcester trunk
road and the A40 Raglan to Llandovery trunk
road;
“works period” (“cyfnod y gwaith”) means
intermittent periods commencing at 20:00 hours on
29 January 2024 and...
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