Road Traffic (Speed Limits and Trials) (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021

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The Road Traffic (Speed Limits and Trials) (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021

THE STATES, in pursuance of their Resolution of the 25^thNovember, 2020[a], hereby order:-

Amendment of Ordinance.

1. (1) The Road Traffic (Speed Limits and Trials) Ordinance, 1987[b] is amended as follows.

(2) In section 2(2), for "States Committee for the Environment & Infrastructure ("the E&I Committee")" substitute "Committee".

(3) For section 4(1) substitute –

"(1) A person shall not promote or take part in any race or trial of speed between motor vehicles on a public highway other than a race or trial of speed held –

(a) at such place, on such day and within such hours on that day as shall be approved by the Committee, and

(b) in accordance with such conditions as the Committee thinks fit, including (but not limited to) conditions with regard to –

(i) the safety of participants, spectators and others (including, for the avoidance of doubt, requirements in respect of the giving of advice, and the granting of approvals, by such relevant governing body of the motorsport in question in the United Kingdom, or such equivalent body, as the Committee thinks fit), and

(ii) the clearance of the site of the race or trial after the event.".

(4) In section 8A(1), for "the E&I Committee" in each place where it occurs substitute "the Committee".

(5) In section 9(1), in the definition of "the Committee", for "States Committee for Home Affairs" substitute "States Committee for the Environment & Infrastructure".

Citation.

2. This Ordinance may be cited as the Road Traffic (Speed Limits and Trials) (Amendment) Ordinance, 2021.

[a]	Article XI of Billet d'État No. XXV of 2020.
[b]	Recueil d'Ordonnances Tome XXIV, p. 20; amended by Ordinance No. XXI of 2018. There are other amendments not relevant to this enactment.