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The Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 1) Order 2019 laid in draft before Parliament today legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/978… criminalising lorry drivers in Kent who leave the UK via a non-specified road or fail to produce papers showing origin+destination and what they are carrying
The Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 2) Order 2019 legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/9780… banning EU-bound lorries from local roads in Kent during restriction periods legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/9780… signed yesterday but subject to Parliamentary approval This Order supports Operation Brock by restricting access to the local road network. Specifically, heavy goods vehicles that are leaving the United Kingdom via the Channel Tunnel or the Port of Dover will not be permitted to use any road in Kent maintained by Highways England, Kent County Council or Medway Council other than:<br />
• motorways, save for parts of the M20 motorway (see paragraph 7.5 below);<br />
• the A2 and A20…
The Heavy Commercial Vehicles in Kent (No. 3) Order 2019 legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1210… signed yesterday and laid before Parliament today, to ban lorries from the M20 without documents and a permit during traffic restriction periods. #novel ANPR data made admissible in court 3.1. Articles 2 and 3 of this instrument rely upon the power in section 17 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to regulate the use of special roads/motorways. The use of this power is novel – it requires the drivers of certain vehicles to comply with checks of documents relating to the export of goods and to display a permit (demonstrating compliance with the traffic management scheme known as Operation Brock…
“Border documents…will be inspected to ascertain readiness to bring goods into a foreign country.” EM ¶7.3
The No. 2 Order uses a power originating in the Road and Rail Traffic Act 1933 which “has never been exercised (to the best of the Department’s knowledge).” 3.2. Articles 3 and 4 of this instrument rely upon a power conferred on the Secretary of State by section 20 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. This power, which originated in section 29 of the Road and Rail Traffic Act 1933, has never been exercised (to the best of the Department’s knowledge). It is being exercised now as it allows for a restriction to be imposed on roads in a wide area (unlike…
None of the three orders will come into force unless and until the No. 1 and No. 2 orders have been approved by both Houses of Parliament. #OperationBrock
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