The Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and the Traffic Signs (Amendment) General Directions 1989

• Citation: S.I. 1989/2139
• Sections: 9

Section 1

These Regulations may be cited as the Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 18th December 1989.

Section 1

These Directions may be cited as the Traffic Signs (Amendment) General Directions 1989 and shall come into force on 18th December 1989.

Section 2

The Traffic Signs Regulations 1981 shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Section 2

The Traffic Signs General Directions 1981 shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Directions.

Section 3

In regulation 7 –

(a) in the cross heading for the words “section 22 of the Road Traffic Act 1972” there shall be substituted “section 36 of the Road Traffic Act 1988”;

(b) in paragraph (1) for the words “section 22 of the Road Traffic Act 1972” there shall be substituted “section 36 of the Road Traffic Act 1988”;

(c) in paragraph (1)(a) after “616” there shall be inserted “,629.2”;

(d) in paragraph (2) for the words “column 5 of Part I of Schedule 4 to the said Act of 1972 in relation to section 22 thereof,” there shall be substituted “column 5 of the entry in Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 relating to offences under section 36 of the Road Traffic Act 1988”; and

(e) the word “and” immediately following paragraph (2)(f) shall be omitted and after paragraph (2)(g) there shall be inserted the following words –

; and

(h) the sign shown in the diagram numbered 629.2.

Section 3

In these Directions any references to a numbered direction or to a numbered paragraph of such a direction are references, respectively, to a paragraph or sub-paragraph so numbered in the Traffic Signs General Directions 1981.

Section 4

In direction 6 for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted –

(2) The sign shown in a diagram specified in an item in column 2 of the Table may be placed on or near a road in the circumstances specified in that item in column 3 of the Table notwithstanding that it does not in those circumstances indicate the effect mentioned in paragraph (1).

TABLE

(a) the approach to a bridge, tunnel or similar structure which limits the height of vehicles using the road under the bridge, through the tunnel or under or through the similar structure; or

(b) any such bridge, tunnel or similar structure.

(a) any diagram in Part I of Schedule 1 to the Regulations; or

(b) diagram 629.2 in Part II of that Schedule in the circumstances specified in item 4 above.

(3) In this direction, “dual-carriageway road” means a length of road on which one part of the carriageway is separated from another part by a central reservation, and “central reservation” means any provision made in a road (not being the provision of a street refuge) for separating one part of the carriageway from another part for the safety and guidance of vehicular traffic using that road.

Section 1

The Regulations in Part I of this instrument are made by the Secretary of State for Transport, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 64 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and by section 36(5) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and of all other enabling powers.

Section 2

The Directions in Part II of this instrument are given by the said Secretaries of State acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 65 of the said Act of 1984 .