If any person authorised in that behalf by or under a designation order has reasonable cause to believe that a document or article carried on a vehicle or by the driver or person in charge thereof is a document or article in relation to which an offence has been committed under subsection (1) above (so far as that subsection relates to such authorisations as are referred to in that subsection) or under subsection (3) above, he may detain that document or article and may for that purpose require the driver or person in charge of the vehicle to deliver up the document or article ; and if the driver or person in charge of the vehicle fails to comply with that requirement he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £50. to secure the expeditious, convenient and safe movement of vehicular and other traffic (including foot passengers) and the provision of suitable and adequate parking facilities on and off the highway. (2)The highway authority for a road leading to a bridge shall give to the bridge authority reasonable facilities for placing on the road any such notice as aforesaid and, if the highway authority so require, the bridge authority shall erect warning notices in the prescribed form at the principal junctions of roads leading to the bridge. the weight transmitted by a vehicle to any transverse strip of the road surface five feet in breadth shall be taken as being an " axle weight" of that vehicle and, for the purposes of this paragraph, a vehicle and any trailer drawn thereby shall be deemed to be a single vehicle; " placed in a proper position " means placed in such a position either on or near the bridge, or on or near the road leading to the bridge, as to be visible at a reasonable distance from the bridge to the drivers of vehicles approaching it; " prescribed " means prescribed by regulations made by the appropriate Minister. In section 255 after the word " Act" there shall be inserted the words. On a bridge carrying a highway over a railway, dock, harbour, canal or inland navigation, or on the approaches to any such bridge or under a bridge carrying a railway, canal or inland navigation over a highway. (2)Subject to section 82 of this Act, the authority having power to make an order under subsection (1) above—, (a)as respects a trunk road, shall be the appropriate Minister; and. (a)as respects orders made by that Council under any of the provisions referred to in subsection (1) above other than section 26A, for any of the like purposes as those for which regulations are required or authorised to be made under subsection (2) above; (b)with respect to any other order the making of which by that Council requires the consent of the Minister, for providing the procedure to be followed in connection with the obtaining of that consent. any such payment between responsible authorities shall be taken into account in determining for the purposes of subsection (2) of the said section 27 the net cost to those authorities respectively of the functions referred to in that subsection. (2) Section 17 shall come into operation on … (6)Where provision is made for the use of apparatus other than parking meters, subsection (5) above shall apply to such apparatus as it applies to a parking meter. In any proceedings for a contravention of the said section 71—, a certificate of an officer of the highway authority for any road stating whether such a system of street lighting as aforesaid was provided thereon before 1st July 1957, and. to believe was driving or attempting to drive the vehicle at the a certificate of an officer of the appropriate Minister or (in the case of a road in Wales or Monmouthshire) of the Secretary of State that a road is or is not a trunk road or a classified road. This version, which was prepared and certified by the Clerk of the Parliaments and deposited with the rolls of Parliament pursuant to section 133 of the Transport Act 1968 (c. 73), is the version of the Act as amended by the Police (Scotland) Act 1967 (c. 77), the Hovercraft Act 1968 (c. 59) and the Transport Act 1968, and represents the Act as so amended as it had effect after the last of the appointed days for the purposes of the provisions of Part IX of the Transport Act 1968. Any byelaw made under section 104 of the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act 1878 or paragraph (1) or (3) of section 385 of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 which is in force at the commencement of this Act shall continue in force and have effect as if it were an order made under section 1 of this Act. (4)In this section " appropriate authority "—. ) if it is shown that at the relevant time he was driving The exercise by a local authority of their powers under this section with respect to the use as a parking place of any part of a road shall not render them subject to any liability in respect of the loss of or damage to any vehicle or the fittings or contents of any vehicle parked in the parking place. (8)Where any such inspection and investigation is held, the appropriate Minister may make such order as to the payment of the costs incurred by him in connection therewith (including such reasonable sum not exceeding five guineas a day as he may determine for the services of any officer engaged thereon) by such party thereto as he thinks fit, and the appropriate Minister may certify the amount of the costs so incurred, and any amount so certified and directed by the appropriate Minister to be paid by any person shall be recoverable from him, and shall be so recoverable, in England or Wales, either as a debt due to the Crown or by the Minister summarily as a civil debt, and in Scotland by the Secretary of State. (9)A person who contravenes, or who uses or permits the use of a vehicle in contravention of, a restriction or prohibition imposed under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £20. sections LXXXIV, LXXXV, XCIV and C of Schedule C to the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act 1878; section 130 of the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892; section 8(5) of the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act 1909 ; section 58 of the Road Traffic Act 1930 ; section 4 of the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act 1935; section 3(2) of the Trunk Roads Act 1946 ; the Highways (Provision of Cattle Grids) Act 1950 ; In this section " quadrennial period " means, in relation to a local authority, a period beginning with the date when the local authority first kept the account required by subsection (1) above and ending with the fourth complete financial year after that date, or a period of four years beginning immediately after the expiration of a quadrennial period. Where any such inspection and investigation is held, the appropriate Minister may make such order as to the payment of the costs incurred by him in connection therewith (including such reasonable sum not exceeding five guineas a day as he may determine for the services of any officer engaged thereon) by such party thereto as he thinks fit, and the appropriate Minister may certify the amount of the costs so incurred, and any amount so certified and directed by the appropriate Minister to be paid by any person shall be recoverable from him, and shall be so recoverable, in England or Wales, either as a debt due to the Crown or by the Minister summarily as a civil debt, and in Scotland by the Secretary of State. (b)by the Secretary of State under section 28(2) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1966 for the purposes of advances under section 8 of the Development and Road Improvement Funds Act 1909. (6)A person who uses a vehicle, or causes or permits a vehicle to be used, in contravention of an order in force under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £50. For prescribing the conditions subject to which, and the times at which, articles may be loaded on to or unloaded from vehicles, or vehicles of any class, on streets. (3)As respects any traffic sign lawfully in place in Greater London which is required in connection with an order under section 6 or 9 of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Council—. Nothing in subsection (5) of section 84A of this Act shall prevent the exercise by a Minister of the power to revoke any order made by that Minister under subsection (4) of that section. Traffic wardens shall wear such uniform as the Secretary of State may determine, and shall not act as traffic wardens when not in uniform. whether being the driver of a vehicle or not, otherwise contravenes or fails to comply with any order relating to parking places designated by designation orders. in respect of any period during which the vehicle is in the custody of that authority, a charge ascertained by reference to the prescribed scale. within the hour or refuses at any time within the hour (4) a vehicle drawing more than one trailer ...... (5) a vehicle not fitted with pneumatic tyres and a vehicle drawing a trailer not so fitted, (3) vehicles drawing more than one trailer, (4) vehicles not fitted with pneumatic tyres, if drawing trailers or having an unladen weight exceeding 1 ton, and vehicles drawing trailers not fitted with pneumatic tyres, (5) vehicles not fitted with resilient tyres and vehicles drawing trailers not so fitted. Any consent required by subsection (1)(c) above shall not be unreasonably withheld, but may be given subject to any reasonable conditions, including a condition that the parish council shall remove any thing to the provision of which the consent relates either at any time or at or after the expiration of a period if reasonably required so to do by the person giving the consent. (b)as respects Scotland, the council of a county, or the town council of a burgh which is responsible for the maintenance and management of all or any of the highways in the burgh; and references in this section to the district of a local authority shall be construed in relation to the council of a county in England or Wales as references to the rural districts comprised in the county, and in relation to the council of a county in Scotland as references to the county together with any burgh therein other than a burgh the council of which is responsible for the maintenance and management of all or any of the highways in the burgh. shall, subject to the following provisions of this section, be exercisable by the Secretary of State instead of by the Minister and references in this Act to the Minister or the appropriate Minister shall be construed accordingly. A parish council may let for use as a parking place any parking place provided by them (not being part of a road) under this section; but, without prejudice to any power of a parish council under any other enactment to let a playing field or other land of which a parking place forms part, no single letting under this subsection shall be for a longer period than seven days. makes provision for street parking places, and for regulating their use with the aid of apparatus or devices approved by the appropriate Minister, which is suitable, regard being had to the extent to which off-street parking places are available in the neighbourhood or their provision is likely to be encouraged by the scheme. (5)Any power of a Minister to make an order under or by virtue of any of the provisions referred to in subsection (1) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument. (2)Subsections (2) and (3) of section 41 of this Act shall apply in relation to an application under subsection (1) above and to such an order as is mentioned in the said subsection (1) as they apply in relation to an application under subsection (1) of the said section 41 and to a designation order. (a)as respects places not in the metropolitan police district, other than places in the City of London, the council of the county or county borough in which the places in question are, (b)as respects places in the City of London, the Common Council of the City, and. Nothing in sections 28, 29(1), 30(1) and 33 of this Act shall authorise the execution of any works on, over or under tidal lands in Scotland below high-water mark of ordinary spring tides except in accordance with such plans and sections and subject to such restrictions and regulations as previous to such works' being commenced have been approved in writing by the Board of Trade. . (4)If any person authorised in that behalf by or under a designation order has reasonable cause to believe that a document or article carried on a vehicle or by the driver or person in charge thereof is a document or article in relation to which an offence has been committed under subsection (1) above (so far as that subsection relates to such authorisations as are referred to in that subsection) or under subsection (3) above, he may detain that document or article and may for that purpose require the driver or person in charge of the vehicle to deliver up the document or article ; and if the driver or person in charge of the vehicle fails to comply with that requirement he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £50. No statutory provision imposing a speed limit on motor vehicles shall apply to any vehicle on an occasion when it is being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes, if the observance of those provisions would be likely to hinder the use of the vehicle for the purpose for which it is being used on that occasion. Any such order which imposes any restriction upon the use by vehicles of streets in Greater London, or the waiting of vehicles in such streets, may include provision with respect to the issue and display of certificates or other means of identification of vehicles which are excepted from the restriction, whether generally or in particular circumstances or at particular times. This section shall apply within Greater London but not elsewhere; and in this section " the commissioner of police " means, in relation to the metropolitan police district, the commissioner of police of the metropolis, and, in relation to the City of London, the commissioner of police for the City of London. The appropriate Minister may at any time on an application made to him by the bridge authority, or on his own initiative, by order made by statutory instrument vary or revoke any order made by him under subsection (7) above, if he is satisfied that it is proper so to do. “or the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967”. (1A)Subsection (1A) of section 69 of this Act shall apply in relation to the placing of bollards or other obstructions under subsection (1) above as if for any reference in the said subsection (1A) to subsection (1) of that section there were substituted a reference to subsection (1) above. 9The repeal by this Act of any provision of the Road Traffic and Roads Improvement Act 1960 and section 29 of the Road Traffic Act 1962 shall not affect any order made by virtue of section 86 or 87 of the Road Traffic Act 1960 before 1st January 1963, or the operation of the said sections 86 and 87 or of the Road Traffic and Roads Improvement Act 1960 in relation to any order made under section 85 of the Road Traffic Act 1960 before that date, so, however, that an order made before that date under the said section 85, 86 or 87 may be varied or revoked by an order under section 36 or 37 of this Act. (12)The powers conferred by this section on the appropriate Minister to make orders shall be exercisable by statutory instrument, and any power conferred by this section to make an order shall include power to vary or revoke it. To such extent as the Minister or, as the case may be, the Council may consider necessary in connection with any order such as is mentioned in subsection (1) above, whether made or proposed to be made by the Minister or by the Council, the Minister may do with respect to any trunk road, or as the case may be the Council may do with respect to any metropolitan road, any thing which the authority making or proposing to make the order might under subsection (1)(a) above require to be done with respect to any other road by the highway authority therefor. All motor vehicles had to be registered, display registration marks and be licensed annually at a cost of 20 shillings (£1). 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