§ After Clause 27, insert the following new clause:
§ Provision of areas for parking heavy goods vehicles, etc.
§ "—(1) A highway authority shall have power to provide on land adjoining, or in the vicinity of, a highway or proposed highway for which they are, or, as the case may be, will be, the highway authority an area, which may be used for all or any of the following purposes, that is to say —
- (a) the parking of heavy goods vehicles;
- (b) the transfer of goods to or from any such vehicle from or to any other vehicle; and
- (c) the temporary storage of goods which have been or are to be carried or hauled by heavy goods vehicles.
§ An area provided under this section is in this Act referred to as a "lorry area".
§ (2) For the purpose of enabling a lorry area to be used as mentioned in subsection (1) above, the highway authority by whom the area is provided shall have power to erect buildings and execute works on the area for the purpose of providing all or any of the following, that is to say—
- (a) parking places for heavy goods vehicles and, if the lorry area is to be used for either or both of the purposes mentioned in subsection (1)(b) and (c) above, parking places for other vehicles which will be on the area in connection with that purpose or those purposes;
- (b) a means of access to or from the area from or to a highway;
- (c) facilities for the accommodation of persons who will be on the lorry area in connection with any purpose for which the area may be used in pursuance of subsection (1) above or with the provision on the area of any such facilities as arc mentioned in this subsection;
- (d) facilities for the provision of meals and refreshments for such persons as are mentioned in paragraph (c) above;
- (e) facilities for handling and storing goods which have been or are to be carried or hauled by heavy goods vehicles;
- (f) service station facilities for such vehicles and for other vehicles entitled to be on the lorry area;
- (g) sanitary conveniences (including lavatories) for such persons as are mentioned in paragraph (c) above;
§ (3) A highway authority shall have power to make arrangements with some other person, not being a council, for anything which that authority have power to do under subsection (2) above to be done by that other person and power to lease the lorry area or any part thereof to that other person, but shall not themselves have power to operate any such facilities as are mentioned in paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of that subsection.
§ (4) Where a lorry area is provided by the Secretary of State under this section he may enter into agreements with a local authority for the exercise by that authority of all or any of his powers under subsection (2) above or of the powers conferred on him in his capacity as a highway authority by virtue of subsection (5) below, so, however, that section 10(2) of the principal Act (discharge of functions delegated by the Secretary of State to a council) shall apply to the exercise of the powers of a local authority under any such agreement and to the conditions to be included in any such agreement as it applies to the discharge of functions delegated under that section to a council and to the conditions to be attached to any such delegation.
§ (5) Section 31 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 (power to make orders as to use of certain parking places) shall apply in relation to a lorry area as it applies in relation to an off-street parking place provided under section 28 of that Act as if for references to a local authority and such a parking place there were substituted references to a highway authority and a lorry area respectively, and sections 84A, 84B, 84C. 84D and 85 of that Act (provisions with respect to certain orders and offences, including orders and offences tinder the said section 31) shall have effect as if—
- (a) references therein to the said section 31 and a local authority included references to that section as applied by this subsection and I a local highway authority respectively;
- (b) references in section 84D to a parking place included references to a lorry area; and
- (c) the reference in section 85(2) to the local authority for the parking place included a reference to the highway authority by whom the lorry area was provided.
§ (6) The power of the Secretary of State under section 235 of the principal Act to make, with Treasury approval, advances to a highway authority shall include power to make such advences in respect of expenses incurred by such an authority in connection with the provision of a lorry area or in the exercise of any other power under this section.
§ (7) A local authority may contribute towards any expenses incurred by the Secretary of State under this section.
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(8) In this section—
goods " includes goods or burden of any description;
heavy goods vehicle " means a motor vehicle constructed or adapted for use for the carriage or haulage of goods, being a vehicle having an unladen weight of two tons or more, or a trailer;
local authority" has the same meaning as in section 27 of this Act;
motor vehicle " has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Act 1960;
trailer " means a vehicle constructed or adapted for use for the carriage of goods and drawn or intended to be drawn by a motor vehicle.")
§ The Commons agreed to the above Amendment but proposed the following Amendment thereto:
§ Line 48, leave out (" and (e)") and insert (", (e) and (f)").
§ LORD SANDFORDMy Lords, I beg to move that this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment to the Lords Amendment. Your Lordships will see that this is not what we would call a substantial Amendment, substituting (e) and (f) for (e), and correcting a small drafting error which crept in through inadvertence when we were amending one of our Bills.
§ Moved, That this House doth agree with the Commons in their Amendment to the Lords Amendment.—(Lord Sandford.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.