THE CITY OF CAMBRIDGE AREA F (CONSOLIDATION) ORDER 1993

2(1) In this Order, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meaning as hereby respectively assigned to them:

"authorised user" means an individual, party or organisation granted authorised user status under the provsions of Article 44(b) of this this Order

"boxed area" means any area of the carriageways of the roads specified in Schedule 20 to this Order being areas at or near the junctions specified in the said Schedule 20 and marked by the appropriate traffic sign;

"bus/cycle lane" means an area of a carriageway which is bounded by the kerbline thereof and a longitudinal white line placed on the carriageway 3 metres from the said kerbline in compliance with diagram 1049 of the Traffic Sign Regulations and General Directions 1981;.

"bus stop" means an area on a highway which is bounded by a marking shown in diagram 1025 in Schedule 2 of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 1981;

"business proprietor" means:

(i) the proprietor of a business, school or shop, or an employee nominated by the proprietor without any off—street parking places attached thereto the postal address of which is in the streets or parts of streets described in Parts 5,6,7,8,9 and 10(4) of Schedule 12 to this Order; or

(ii) the proprietor of a school or an employee nominated by the proprietor' without any off-street parking places attached thereto the postal address of which is in the streets or parts of streets described in Part 1 of Schedule 11 to this Order;

except for those streets or parts of streets described in Part 11 of Schedule 12 to this Order

"conference" means a meeting of persons of one day or longer in duration taking place within premises owned or occupied by a college;

"conference permit" means a permit issued under the provisions of Article 164 of this Order;

"conference permit holder" means a person to whom a conference permit has been issued;

"college" means an educational establishment as specified in Part 1 of Schedule 26 to this Order;

"cycle lane" means the area of carriageway bounded by the kerb line of a road and by a longitudinal white line 150mm wide in compliance with diagram 1049 of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 1981 and placed on the said carriageway 1.5 metres from the said kerb line;

"disabled person's badge" and "disab1ed person's vehicle" have the same meanings as stated in Section 2 of The Local Authorities’ Traffic Orders (Exemptions for Disabled Persons) (England & Wales) Regulations 1986;

"disabled person's parking place" means an area of a highway designated as a parking place for disabled person's vehicles by Article 106 of this Order;

"doctor parking place" means an area of a highway designated as a parking place by Article 57 of this Order for the leaving of a vehicle by a legally qualified medical practitioner;

"driver" means, in relation to a vehicle waiting in a parking place, the person driving the vehicle at the time it was left in the parking place;

"goods" includes postal packets of any description; and "delivering”" and "collecting" in relation to any goods includes checking the goods for the purpose of their delivery or collection;

"goods vehicle" means a motor vehicle which is constructed or adapted for use for the carriage of goods or burden of any description, and is not drawing a trailer;

"hackney carriage" means a vehicle as defined in Section 38 of the Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 and duly licensed by the Council pursuant to its powers under Section 37 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1857 as amended by Section 16 of the Transport Act 1985;

"invalid carriage" has the same meaning as defined in Section 136(5) of the Act of 1984;

"legally qualified medical practitioner" has the same meaning as in Schedule 6 paragraph 11 of the Medical Act 1983

"loading bay" means a parking place designated as a loading bay by Article 113 of this Order;

"motor cycle" means a bicycle propelled by mechanical power with or without a sidecar attached thereto;

"motor cycle parking place" means a part of a road designated for use by Article 45 of this Order as a parking place for bicycles propelled by mechanical power and not having a sidecar attached thereto;

"motor vehicle" has the same meaning as stated in Sections 136(1) and 140 of the Act of 1984;

"one way street" means a highway in which vehicles are prohibited at all times from proceeding in any other than one direction;

"owner" means, in relation to the vehicle, the person by whom the vehicle is kept and used;

"parking bay" means a space in a parking place which is provided for the leaving of a vehicle as indicated by the use of appropriate traffic signs;

"parking meter" means an apparatus of a type and design approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of this Order being apparatus designed to indicate:

(a) whether the initial charge referred to in Article 7 of this Order has been paid and whether the period for which it has been paid has elapsed, or

(b) whether the period referred to in Article 9 of this Order has elapsed

"parking place" means an area on a highway designated as a parking place by Article 3 of this Order;

"parking place without charge" means an area on a highway designated as a parking place by Article 155 of this Order;

"parking space" means a space in a parking place which is provided for the leaving of a vehicle;

"passenger vehicle" means any motor vehicle adapted for the carrying of passengers not being a public service vehicle;

"pedal cycle" means a bicycle not being a mechanically propelled vehicle and excludes a pedal tricycle;

"pedal cycle parking place" means a part of a road designated by Article 74 of this Order;

"permit" means a permit issued under the provisions of Articles 70(3)(a), 88(4)(a),88(5),142(e) of this Order;

"permit holders" means a person to whom a permit has been issued under the provisions of Articles 70(3)(a), 88(4)(a), 88(5), 142(e) of this Order ;

"permitted hours" means the period between 9.00am and 5.00pm on Monday to Saturday inclusive, any such day not being Christmas Day, Good Friday or a Bank Holiday being a public holiday;

"private hire car" means a vehicle being a motor vehicle constructed or adapted to carry fewer than 8 passengers other than a hackney carriage and duly licensed pursuant to Section 48 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976;

"prohibited hours" means in relation to any prohibited road specified in all Parts of Schedule 3 to this Order, the periods which are specified in the said schedules;

"prohibited road" means any road or part of a road specified in all Parts of Schedule 3 to this Order provided that the expression "prohibited road" shall not for the purposes of Article 28, 29 or 30 of this Order include any parking place;

"public service vehicle" means a vehicle adapted to carry 8 or more passengers used in the provision of a public service not being a hackney carriage or a private hire car;

"public service vehicle parking place" means a parking place designated for public service vehicles by Article 119 of this Order;

"relevant position" means

(i) in the case of a vehicle fitted with a front windscreen, the permit is exhibited thereon either on the near side of and immediately behind the windscreen and with its front facing forward so as to be legible from the outside of the vehicle, or on the dashboard or fascia panel so that the permit is legible from outside the vehicle:

(ii) in the case of a vehicle not fitted with a front windscreen, dashboard or fascia panel, the permit is exhibited in a conspicuous position on the vehicle so that the permit is legible from outside the vehicle

"resident" means

(i) a person whose usual place of abode is at premises the postal address of which is in the streets or part of streets described in all Parts of Schedule 12 to this Order;

(ii) a person who is not an undergraduate of the University of Cambridge and whose usual place of abode is at premises without any off-street parking places attached thereto, the postal address of which is in the streets or parts of streets described in Part 10(3) of Schedule 12 to this Order;

"resident parking place" means an area of a highway designated as a parking place for residents by Article 85 of this Order;

"restricted hours" means in relation to any restricted road specified in all Parts of Schedule 2 to this Order, the periods which are specified in the said schedules;

"restricted road" means any road or part of a road specified in all Parts of Schedule 2 to this Order provided that the expression "restricted road" shall not for the purposes of Article 28, 29 or 30 of this Order include any parking place;

"Samaritan parking place" means an area of an highway designated by Article 58 of this Order for the leaving of a vehicle by an employee of the Samaritans;

"scheduled service" means a service operated to a schedule drawn up from time to time by the County of Cambridgeshire in consultation with the operators of Public Service Vehicles for the operation of local services as defined in Section 2 of the Transport Act 1985;

"school bus" means a vehicle which is constructed or adapted to carry 8 or more passengers and is being used to carry persons to and from school as defined by Section 114(1) of the Education Act 1944;

"telegraphic line" has the same meaning as in the Telecommunications Act 1984;

"ticket machine" means an apparatus of a type and design approved by the Secretary of State for the purpose of this Order being apparatus designed to indicate the time by a clock and to issue numbered tickets indicating payment of a charge, the period in respect of which it has been paid, the day of issue and the time of departure at which the vehicle must leave the parking place;

"traffic sign" means a sign or marking of any size, colour and type prescribed or authorised under, or having effect as though prescribed or authorised under, the Traffic Sign Regulation and General Directions 1981 and all amendments thereto;

"traffic warden" means a traffic warden employed by a police authority in pursuance of Section 95 of the Act of 1984;

"works bus" means a vehicle which is constructed or adapted to _ carry 8 or more passengers and which has been provided by an employer for the purpose of carrying persons to and from their place of employment and is being used for such a purpose;

2(2) For the purposes of this Order a vehicle shall be deemed to wait for a period of more than thirty minutes in the same place in any restricted road if any point in that road is below the vehicle or its load (if any) throughout a period exceeding thirty minutes, whether or not the vehicle is moved during that period.

2(3) Any reference in this Order to any enactment shall be construed as a reference to that enactment as amended by any subsequent enactment.

2(4) The Interpretation Act 1978 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 17 of that Act this Order were an Act of Parliament and the Orders revoked by Article 56 of this Order were Acts of Parliament thereby repealed.

2(5) The restrictions, prohibitions and requirements imposed by this Order are in addition to and not in derogation of any restriction, prohibition or requirement imposed by any other enactment and any exception or exemption to the provisions of this Order is without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment.

152(a) the vehicle to be used for the removal of any obstruction to traffic;

152(b) the vehicle to be used for police fire brigade or ambulance purposes;

152(c) the vehicle to be used in service of any local authority or water authority or with the permission of any such authority in pursuance of statutory powers or duties; providing that whilst being so used it is necessary for the vehicle to wait or proceed in the cycle lane;

152(d) the vehicle to pass vehicles parked on the side of the carriageway opposite to a marked cycle lane;

152(e) the vehicle to avoid an accident; or

152(f) the vehicle to gain entrance to off-street loading facilities or garaging.

154(a) a public service vehicle waiting or proceeding to and from waiting in a part of the carriageway which is bounded by a road marking shown in diagram 1025 in Schedule 2 of the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 1981 lawfully in place;

154(b) a vehicle being used for police fire or ambulance purposes;

154(c) in the service of a local authority in pursuance of the authority's statutory powers or duties;

154(d) a vehicle that cannot conveniently be used for such purpose in any other road being used in connection with the removal of any obstruction to traffic the maintenance and improvement or reconstruction of the lengths of roads referred to or the laying erection or alteration or repair in or near the said lengths of roads of any sewer or of any main pipe or apparatus for the supply of gas water or electricity or of any telegraphic line;

154(e) in the service of or employed by the Post Office being used for the purposes of delivering or collecting postal packets as defined in Section 87 of the Post Office Act 1953;

154(f) a vehicle crossing the carriageway to gain access to off- street parking or loading facilities; or

154(g) a vehicle crossing the carriageway to gain access to premises situated adjacent to the carriageway and to which access cannot be gained from any other road.