Road Traffic Act 1974
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1974 c. 50 |
(1) The Secretary of State may conduct experiments as to the effectiveness, safety and acceptability to the public of the construction in or on the surface of highways of artificial humps or depressions (in this section referred to as “road humps”) designed to control the speed of vehicles, and for this purpose he may, subject to the following provisions of this section, construct, maintain and remove road humps in any highway maintainable at the public expense, within the meaning of the Highways Act 1959.neither the highway authority nor any other authority having power to maintain that highway shall remove or otherwise interfere with the road hump without the consent of the Secretary of State; andany obligation imposed on any other person having power to break open that highway to make good any damage to it or otherwise to reinstate it shall include an obligation to make good any damage to, or otherwise reinstate, the road hump.publish in one or more local newspapers circulating in the area in which the highway concerned is situated, andplace at appropriate points on that highway,(4) The Secretary of State shall consider any objections sent to him in accordance with a notice under subsection (3) above and, if he thinks fit, may cause a local inquiry to be held; and section 279 of the Highways Act 1959 (provisions as to inquiries) shall have effect in relation to an inquiry caused to be held under this subsection as it has effect in relation to an inquiry caused to be held under that section.(5) A road hump constructed in a highway in accordance with this section shall be removed not later than the expiry of the period of one year beginning with the day on which its construction began.to exercise the powers of a highway authority in relation to the placing, maintenance and removal of any traffic sign, within the meaning of F6the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984, relating to a road hump in a highway for which he is not the highway authority, andto carry out any works ancillary to or consequential on the construction, maintenance or removal of a road hump or the exercise of any power conferred on him by paragraph (a) above,the highway authority for that highway, andany other authority having power to maintain that highway,it does not raise the surface of the highway by more than 5 inches above, or lower that surface by more than 2 inches below, the surface of the highway on either side of the hump; andit is of such a shape that no damage is likely to be caused to the tyres of a vehicle passing over the hump.the road hump shall be treated as not constituting an obstruction to the highway; andthe highway authority shall not be treated as being in breach of their duty to maintain the highway by reason only of the presence of the road hump.(1) Notwithstanding anything in the (2) In this section “flare” means a firework or other device designed to produce a light by a process of combustion.(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(2) Except in so far as the context otherwise requires, references in this Act to any other enactment shall be construed as referring to that enactment as amended by or under any other enactment, including this Act.(1) This Act may be cited as the Road Traffic Act 1974.(2) Schedule 6 to this Act, which contains minor amendments and amendments consequential on the provisions of this Act, shall have effect.(3) The enactments specified in Schedule 7 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (5) This Act . . .
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