The A494 Trunk Road (Between Bethel and Glan Yr Afon, Gwynedd) (Temporary Traffic Prohibitions and Restriction) Order 2024
| Jurisdiction | Wales |
| Year | 2024 |
| Citation | SI 2024/72 (W19) |
2024 No. 72 (W. 19)
ROAD TRAFFIC, WALES
The A494 Trunk Road (Between Bethel and Glan Yr Afon, Gwynedd) (Temporary Traffic Prohibitions and Restriction) Order 2024
Made 19January 2024
Coming into force 25January 2024
The Welsh Ministers, as traffic authority for the A494 trunk road, are satisfied that traffic on a specified length of the trunk road should be prohibited and 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 A494 Trunk Road
(Between Bethel and Glan Yr Afon, Gwynedd)
(Temporary Traffic Prohibitions and Restriction)
Order 2024 and this Order comes into force on 25
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 powers 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 Act(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;
“length of the trunk road” (“darn o’r gefnffordd”)
means that length of the A494 Dolgellau to South
of Birkenhead trunk road that extends from a point
580 metres north-east of its junction with the
B4402 county road near Bethel to a point 1890
metres north-east of its junction with the B4402
county road, which is adjacent to the western layby
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