Special Roads (Classes of Traffic) Order, 1961
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1961/1210 |
| Year | 1961 |
1961 No. 1210
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Special Roads (Classes of Traffic) Order, 196115thMay 1961
30thJune 1961
The Minister of Transport, in exercise of his powers under subsection (3) of section 12 of the Highways Act, 1959(a), and of all other powers him enabling in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Special Roads (Classes of Traffic) Order, 1961, and shall come into operation on the thirtieth day of June, 1961.
(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889(b), shall apply for the interpretation of this Order as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, and as if for the purposes of section 38 of that Act this Order were an Act of Parliament and the Order revoked by Article 2 of this Order were an Act of Parliament thereby repealed.
2. The Special Roads (Classes of Traffic) Order, 1959(c) is hereby revoked.
3. The Fourth Schedule to the Highways Act, 1959, shall be amended so as to have effect as set out in the Schedule to this Order.
4. In schemes under section eleven of the Highways Act, 1959, made before the date on which this Order comes into operation references to traffic in Class VII set out in the Fourth Schedule to the said Act of 1959 shall be construed as including references to traffic in Classes X and XI created by this Order.
Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Transport this fifteenth day of May, 1961.
Ernest Marples, The Minister of Transport.
(L.S.)
SCHEDULE
CLASSES OF TRAFFIC FOR PURPOSES OF SPECIAL ROADS
Class I: Motor tractors, heavy motor cars, motor cars and motor cycles whereof the cylinder capacity of the engine is not less than 50 cubic centimetres, and trailers drawn thereby, which comply with general regulations as to construction and use made under section sixty-four of the Road Traffic
(a) 7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 25.
(b) 52 & 53 Vict. c. 63.
(c) S.I. 1959/1280 (1959 II, p. 2514).
Act, 1960(a), and in the case of which the following conditions are satisfied, that is to say:—
(i) that the whole weight of the vehicle is transmitted to the road surface by means of wheels;
(ii) that all wheels of the vehicle are equipped with pneumatic tyres;
(iii) that the vehicle is not controlled by a pedestrian;
(iv) that the maximum speed at which the vehicle may be driven under section twenty-four of the Road Traffic Act, 1960, on roads which are not special roads is not less than twenty miles per hour; and
(v) that the vehicle is not a vehicle...
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