NEW ROADS AND STREET WORKS ACT 1991

The Birmingham Northern Relief Road Toll Order 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions hereby gives notice that he has made an Order under sections 6, 7 and 13 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, in relation to the special road known as the Birmingham Northern Relief Road. This Order will:   (1) authorise the charging of tolls by a concessionaire on the special road for a period of 51 years beginning with the date of opening to public traffic of the Birmingham Northern Relief Road between the M6 Motorway at Langley Green and the M42 at Curdworth,   (2) provide that the following descriptions of traffic will be exempt from liability to pay tolls:       (a) a police vehicle, identifiable as such by writing or marking on it otherwise by its appearance, if being used for police purposes;       (b) the classes of exempt vehicles specified in section 13(2) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, as amended by Schedule 3 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994:         (i) a fire engine as defined by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 2 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994;         (ii) an ambulance as defined by paragraph 6(2) of that Schedule;         (iii) invalid carriages as defined by paragraph 18 of that Schedule;         (iv) vehicles used by or kept for use by or for the purposes of a disabled person as defined by paragraph 19 of that Schedule; and         (v) vehicles used for the carriage of disabled persons by recognised bodies in accordance with paragraph 20 of that Schedule.       (c) a vehicle being used in connection with:         (i) the collection of tolls; or         (ii) the inspection, safety, maintenance, improvement or renewal of or other dealing with the special roads or any structure, works or apparatus in, on, under or over those roads:   In accordance with the provisions of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, the proceedings for this Order will so far as practicable be taken concurrently with those for the Scheme authorising provision of the special road.   Copies of the Order and accompanying plans referred to in it have been deposited at the Highways Agency, Project Services, Room 12/27 St. Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE; the Highways Agency, Broadway, Broad Street, Birmingham B15 1BL; and at Birmingham City Council, Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham; Cannock Chase District Council, The Council House, Beecroft Road, Cannock, Staffordshire; Lichfield District Council, Council Offices, Frog Lane, Lichfield, Staffordshire; Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, Civic Centre, Darwall Street, Walsall, West Midlands; North Warwickshire Borough Council, Council House, South Street, Atherstone, Warwickshire; South Staffordshire District Council, Council Offices, Wolverhampton Road, Codsall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands; Norton Canes Library, Burntwood Road, Norton Canes, Cannock; Shenstone Library, Main Street, Shenstone, Walsall; Burntwood and Chase Terrace Library, Sankeys Corner, Burntwood, Lichfield; Cheslyn Hay Library, High Street, Cheslyn Hay, Walsall; Water Orton Library, Mickle Meadow, Coleshill Road, Water Orton, Birmingham; Brownhills Library, Bricklin Street, Brownhills, Walsall; Coleshill Library, 141 High Street, Coleshill, Birmingham; Sutton Coldfield Library, Lower Parade, Sutton Coldfield and Reddicap Heath Post Office, 53 Reddicap Heath Road, Sutton Coldfield, where they are open to inspection, free of charge, at all reasonable hours from 12th February 1998 to 3rd April 1998.   Copies of the Order can be purchased through booksellers or direct from the Government bookshops (HMSO). It is numbered S.I. 1998/124 and is priced £0.65.   Any person aggrieved by the Order who desires to question its validity, or the validity of any provision in it, on the grounds that it is not within the powers of that Act, or any requirement of that Act has not been complied with in relation to the Order, may apply to the High Court within 6 weeks from the date of first publication of this notice. On such an application, the Court may suspend or quash the Order or any provision in it. G. P. Rainbow, Highways Agency 4th February 1998.