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Thread: Open roads proposal
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1st March 2014, 18:52 #11
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Re: Open roads proposal
Originally Posted by AndyRAC
I am not sure of the law of standing on the road.
But it only applies up to the highway boundary - so they can't stop you walking behind the fence/hedge or across fields etc, where the Land Reform (Scotland) Act applies.If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off!
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1st March 2014, 19:47 #12
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Re: Open roads proposal
Yeah, that's what most people were doing - walking across fields; it was the Langton stage actually.
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3rd March 2014, 11:13 #13
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Re: Open roads proposal
And it's important to remember that the highway boundary extends all the way to the fence / wall alongside the road, most roads in the UK are fenced. Not sure what the situation is with unfenced roads, perhaps it's only the road surface itself?
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8th June 2014, 22:26 #14
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10th June 2014, 20:02 #15
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Taken from the Scottish Borders Council (Jim Clark Memorial Rally) Order Confirmation Act 1996
(7) If any person without the consent of the Council knowingly and without reasonable excuse enters or remains upon any public road which is closed to him, or drives or causes or permits to be driven a vehicle upon any public road or part of a public road which is closed to that vehicle under this section, or fails to comply with any condition subject to which the Council have given their consent under this section, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.
(8)In proceedings for an offence under subsection (7) above, it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of the offence.
But if there isn't a sign up making you aware the road is closed.....If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off!
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11th July 2014, 18:21 #17
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I wonder how exactly this would play out in practice? I would personally love to have more events to see.
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21st July 2014, 10:37 #18
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Two people were prosecuted on the Isle of Man for crossing the TT Course when the road was closed.
http://www.energyfm.net/cms/news_story_320517.html
The Manx legislation doesn't permit walking or standing on a closed road unless you are a signed-on official with the authority to be there. Race & rally marshals are empowered as Special Constables to enforce the road closure order.Last edited by Steve Boyd; 21st July 2014 at 10:42.
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