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ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 81E

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 81E

81E .         Road closure order, effect of

        (1)         Subject to —

            (a)         any directions given by a member of the Police Force under section 9A of the Public Order in Streets Act 1984 ; and

            (b)         the provisions of subsection (2),

                where the holding or conduct of an event on a closed road substantially conforms with the terms of the order relating to it, a person participating in that event who observes such conditions and limitations as are specified in the order may position himself in, or proceed over, any road referred to in the order and is not, by reason of any thing done or omitted to be done by him for the purposes only of his participating in that event, guilty of any offence against the provisions of this Act or any other enactment regulating the movement of traffic and pedestrians, or relating to the obstruction of a street.

        (2)         An order made under this Part shall be deemed to contain a condition requiring persons participating in the event on the closed road to which it relates not to obstruct the free passage of any ambulance, fire brigade vehicle or police vehicle, and where any person contravenes that condition the holding and conduct of that event shall be taken not to have conformed with the order.

        (3)         Subject to the provisions of this Part and any order granted in relation to a road, a road closed pursuant to this Part remains a “road” for the purposes of this Act and any other enactment.

        [Section 81E inserted: No. 64 of 1988 s. 4; amended: No. 70 of 2004 s. 82.]