
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Control of Traffic (Antrim) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 2nd September 1996.
(2) In this Order “taxi” means a public service vehicle used in standing or plying for hire and used to carry passengers for hire and being a vehicle seating not more than six passengers in addition to the driver.
2 
Subject to Article 3, the use by vehicles, other than taxis, of the roads and length of road specified in Schedule 1, is prohibited.
3 
Article 2 shall not apply to—
(a) a vehicle the driver of which is acting upon the direction or with the permission of a constable in uniform or of a traffic warden;
(b) a vehicle being used for police, military, ambulance or fire brigade purposes or in an emergency by a medical practitioner;
(c) a vehicle being used on or adjacent to the roads or length of road in pursuance of statutory powers or duties by or on behalf of a government department, district council or statutory undertaker;
(d) a vehicle being used in connection with the laying, erection, alteration or repair of any telecommunications apparatus as defined in section 4(3) of the Telecommunications Act 1984; or
(e) a vehicle being used in connection with any building operation or demolition on or adjacent to the roads or length of road.
4 
A person shall not, except upon the direction or with the permission of a constable in uniform or of a traffic warden, cause or permit any vehicle to proceed on the road or length of road specified in column 1 of Schedule 2 in a direction other than that specified in relation to that road in column 2.
5 
Subject to Article 7, a person shall not—
(a) cause or permit a vehicle travelling in a westerly direction along the link road between Castle Street, Antrim, and Dublin Road to make a right-hand turn into Dublin Road between 8.00 a.m. and 9.30 a.m. and between 4.00 p.m. and 6.00 p.m.; and
(b) cause or permit—
(i) a vehicle other than a taxi at any time; and
(ii) a taxi between 8.00 a.m. and 9.30 a.m. and between 4.00 p.m. and 6.00 p.m.
travelling in a northerly direction along Dublin Road, Antrim, to make a right-hand turn into the access lane from Dublin Road to the link road referred to in paragraph (a).
6 
Subject to Article 7, a person shall not cause or permit a vehicle travelling in a northerly direction along Dublin Road, Antrim, on reaching its junction with Castle Way, to make a U-turn at the northern end of the central reservation.
7 
Articles 5 and 6 shall not apply to—
(a) vehicles being used for fire brigade, ambulance, police or military purposes; or
(b) a vehicle, the driver of which is acting upon the direction or with the permission of a constable in uniform or of a traffic warden.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 22nd July 1996.
J. Carlisle
Assistant Secretary

SCHEDULE 1
Article 2
1 
Castle Street, Antrim, from a point approximately 14 metres north of its junction with Market Square, to a point approximately 50 metres north of that junction.
2 
The link road between Castle Street, Antrim, and Dublin Road.
3 
The access lane from Dublin Road, Antrim, to the link road referred to in paragraph 2.
SCHEDULE 2
Article 4


Column 1 Column 2
All in the town of Antrim: 

1 
The link road between Castle Street and Westerly towards Dublin Road Dublin Road, from its junction with the access lane referred to in item 2 to its junction with Dublin Road

2 
The access lane from Dublin Road to the Southerly towards the link road link road referred to in item 1