Criminal and Law Additions Alterations
| DOI | 10.1177/002201835602000108 |
| Published date | 01 January 1956 |
| Date | 01 January 1956 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Criminal
and
Law Additions
Alterations
THE
ROAD VEHICLES
(LIGHTING)
(STANDING VEHICLES)
(EXEMPTION)
(LONDON)
REGULATIONS, 1955. S.1.
NO.
1363
These Regulations, which extend only to
the
Metropolitan
Police District and
the
City of London, came into force on
z
rst
September, 1955, and exempt certain vehicles from the
requirements of
the
Road Transport Lighting Act, 1927 to
1953, when parked on roads after lighting-up time.
It
is
important to remember
that
the
Regulations deal only with
exemptions from lighting requirements, and do not otherwise
affect the law relating to parking and obstruction.
Regulation 3 applies
the
Regulations to passenger vehicles,
goods vehicles, invalid carriages, motor cycles and
bicycles whether having a side-car or not. Vehicles with
overhanging loads or trailers attached are not exempted
by
the
regulations.
Regulation 4 applies to vehicles parked on a road on which a
speed limit is in force
but
on which no service of stage
carriages or trolley vehicles is run, and which is not a road
or
part
of a road specially set aside for
the
parking of
vehicles or as a stand for hackney carriages.
On
such a
road a parked vehicle need not show lights if the near
side is next to
the
kerb, if no
part
of
the
vehicle is more
than
25 yards from a lit street lamp, and if no part of
the
vehicle is within 15 yards from a road junction.
There
is
special provision for a one-way street.
Regulation 5re-enacts regulation 28 of
the
Road Vehicles
Lighting Regulations, 1954, in regard to roads in
the
Metropolitan Police District or City of London by
permitting vehicles to stand on a parking place without
lights where permission to do so has been given by
the
Commissioner of Police.
Regulation 6 applies to a road on which aspeed limit is in
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