| Guvnor

Enforced by: National Highways
Status: In Force
Penalty ceiling: Regulated

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Any Person6 Operator3

Other Acts binding the same actors

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Any Person — also bound by 2684 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

Operator — also bound by 803 other Acts

Regulation (EU) No 965/2012 (Air Operations) 203 duties

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2066 of 19 December 2018 on the monitoring and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions pursuant to Directive 2003/87/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 601/2012 (Text with EEA relevance) 121 duties

Space Industry Regulations 2021 76 duties

Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health (‘Animal Health Law’) (Text with EEA relevance) 66 duties

Air Navigation Order 2016 65 duties

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.005 Vehicles to be driven on the carriageway only Regulated

Do not drive on non-carriageway parts of a motorwayOperator

s.006 Direction of driving Regulated

Drive in the correct direction on motorways and obey no-entry/no-turn signsAny Person

s.007 Restriction on stopping Regulated

Don't stop on a motorway carriageway except in a genuine emergencyOperator

s.008 Restriction on reversing Regulated

Don't reverse on a motorway except to move forward or connect vehiclesAny Person

s.009 Restriction on the use of hard shoulders and emergency refuge areas Regulated

Do not drive or stop on the hard shoulder or emergency refuge areaOperator

s.010 Vehicles not to use the central reservation or verge Regulated

Don't drive, stop or park on motorway central reservations or vergesAny Person

s.011 Vehicles not to be driven by learner drivers Regulated

Learner drivers must not drive on motorways except with approved instructorAny Person

s.012 Restriction on use of right hand or off side lane Regulated

Do not drive heavy goods vehicles in the right-hand lane of motorwaysAny Person

s.014 Restrictions affecting animals carried in vehicles Regulated

Prevent animals leaving vehicles on motorways and keep them under controlAny Person

7 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Commencement and citation

s.002 Revocation

s.003 Interpretation

s.004 Application

s.013 Restrictions affecting persons on foot on a motorway

s.015 Use of motorway by excluded traffic

s.016 Exceptions and relaxations

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.

Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982

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What it requires