Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 1994
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1994/1519 |
1994 No. 1519
ROAD TRAFFIC
The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 1994
Made 26th May 1994
Laid before Parliament 22th July 1994
Coming into force 12th August 1994
The Secretary of State for Transport, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting in the manner and in exercise of the powers specified in Appendix 1 to this Instrument, hereby—
(a) after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 134(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 19841and section 195(2) of the Road Traffic Act 19882, make the Regulations set out in Part I, and
(b) give the Directions set out in Part II,
of this Instrument.
PART I
THE TRAFFIC SIGNS REGULATIONS 1994
PRELIMINARY
Citation and commencement
1. This Part of this Instrument—
(a) may be cited—
(i) as the Traffic Signs Regulations 1994, and
(ii) together with Part II below, as the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 1994; and
(b) shall come into force on 12th August 1994.
Revocations
2. The Instruments specified in Appendix 2 to this Instrument, so far as they consist of or comprise regulations, are hereby revoked except that for the purposes of the Traffic Signs (Welsh and English Language Provisions) Regulations 19853the revocations of the Regulations marked with an asterisk in Appendix 2 shall have no effect.
Savings
3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), any traffic sign which immediately before the coming into force of these Regulations is placed on or near any road shall be treated as prescribed by these Regulations, notwithstanding any provisions of these Regulations to the contrary, provided that—
(a)
(a) it is a sign prescribed, or to be treated as if prescribed, by the 1981 Regulations; and
(b)
(b) it continues to comply with those Regulations,
as if those Regulations had not been revoked.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall cease to have effect—
(a)
(a) on 1st January 1996 in relation to any road markings shown in diagrams RM 2 to RM 29 in the Second Schedule to the Traffic Signs Regulations 19574, in relation to the sign shown in diagram 623 in Schedule 1 and any road markings shown in diagrams 1005 to 1008, 1013, 1015, 1016, 1027, 1028, 1030, 1031 and 1034 to 1039 in Schedule 2 to the Traffic Signs Regulations 19645; and
(b)
(b) on 1st January 1999 in relation to any sign shown in any of the diagrams 508, 509, 537.1, 537.2, 537.3, 537.4, 542.1, 542.2, 554 (when varied to “Ice” or “Snowdrifts”), 556.3, 556.4, 577, 603, 605.1 and 622.1A (when varied to indicate a 16.5 tonne maximum gross weight prohibition) in Schedule 1 and diagrams 1016.1, 1018, 1020 and 1021 in Schedule 2 to the 1981 Regulations; and
(c)
(c) on 1st January 2005 in relation to any sign shown in any of the diagrams 403 to 405, 412A to 418, 422 to 433, 435 to 459, 468 to 472, and 474 to 495 in the First Schedule to the Traffic Signs Regulations 1957, in diagrams 742, 746, 837, and 838 in Schedule 1 to the Traffic Signs Regulations 1964, and in diagrams 626.1, 627, 628.1, 641, 642.1, 653, 734.7, 739.3, 742.1, 742.2, 742.3, 742.4, 742.5, 742.6, 747, 748, 749, 750, 751, 752, 752.1, 753, 753.1, 758, 759, 837.1, 838.1 and 905 in Schedule 1 to the 1981 Regulations; and
(d)
(d) on 1st January 2015 in relation to any sign shown in diagrams 728.1, 728.2, 729, 729.1, 729.2, 729.3, 730, 730.1, 732, 732.1, 732.2, 733, 733.1, 734.1, 734.2, 734.3, 734.4, 734.5, 734.6, 734.8, 734.9, 734.10, 736, 736.1, 737.1, 760 and 761 in Schedule 1 to the 1981 Regulations.
(3) A sign which is of the size, colour and type shown in diagram 701, 702, 702.1, 703, 703.1, 703.2, 703.3, 704, 705, 706, 707, 708, 709, 710, 710.1, 711.1, 712, 712.1, 713, 714, 715, 716, 717, 718, 718.1, 718.2, 718.3, 719, 719.1, 719.2, 719.3A, 719.4, 720, 721.1, 722, 723, 724, 724.1, 724.2, 725, 726, 727, 727.2, 728, 728.1, 728.2, 728.3, 729, 729.1, 729.2, 729.3, 730, 730.1, 732, 732.1, 732.2, 732.4, 732.5, 733, 733.1, 734.1, 734.2, 734.3, 734.4, 734.5, 734.6, 734.7, 734.8, 734.9, 734.10, 735.1, 735.2, 736, 736.1, 737.1, 739, 739.1, 739.2, 739.3, 739.4, 739.5, 741, 741.1 or 905 in Schedule 1 to the 1981 Regulations may be erected on or near a road after the coming into force of these Regulations, notwithstanding that it is not of the size, colour and type shown in any diagram in these Regulations, provided that the design or manufacture of the sign had begun before the coming into force of these Regulations.
Interpretation general
4. In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires—
“the 1984 Act” means the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984;
“the 1988 Act” means the Road Traffic Act 1988;
“the 1981 Regulations” means the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 19816;
“articulated vehicle” means a motor vehicle with a trailer so attached to it as to be partially superimposed upon it;
“automatic half-barrier level crossing” means a level crossing where barriers are installed to descend automatically across part of the road when a railway vehicle or tramcar approaches and the operation of the barriers is monitored remotely from the crossing;
“automatic barrier crossing (L)” means a level crossing where barriers are installed to descend automatically across part of the road when a railway vehicle or tramcar approaches and the driver of the railway vehicle or tramcar is required to monitor the operation of the barriers when the railway vehicle or tramcar is at or near the crossing;
“automatic open crossing (L)” means a level crossing without automatic barriers where light signals are so installed as to be operated automatically by a railway vehicle or tramcar approaching the crossing and the driver of the railway vehicle or tramcar is required to monitor the operation of the light signals when the railway vehicle or tramcar is at or near the crossing;
“automatic open crossing (R)” means a level crossing without automatic barriers where light signals are so installed as to be operated automatically by a railway vehicle or tramcar approaching the crossing and the operation of the light signals is monitored remotely from the crossing;
“automatic level crossing” means an automatic half-barrier level crossing, an automatic barrier crossing (L), an automatic open crossing (L) or an automatic open crossing (R);
“central reservation” means—
(a) any land between the carriageways of a road comprising two carriageways; or
(b) any permanent work (other than a traffic island) in the carriageway of a road,
which separates the carriageway or, as the case may be, the part of the carriageway which is to be used by traffic moving in one direction from the carriageway or part of the carriageway which is to be used (whether at all times or at particular times only) by traffic moving in the other direction;
“contra-flow” means a part of a carriageway of a road where—
(a) traffic is authorised to proceed in the opposite direction to the usual direction of traffic on that part; or
(b) a specified class of traffic is authorised to proceed in the opposite direction to other traffic on that carriageway;
“cycle lane” means a part of the carriageway of a road which—
(a) starts with the marking shown in diagram 1009; and
(b) is separated from the rest of the carriageway—
(i) if it may not be used by vehicles other than pedal cycles, by the marking shown in diagram 1049; or
(ii) if it may be used by vehicles other than pedal cycles, by the marking shown in diagram 1004 or 1004.1;
“dual carriageway road” means a road which comprises a central reservation;
“enactment” includes any Act or subordinate legislation as defined in section 21(1) of the Interpretation Act 19787;
“excursion or tour” has the meaning given in section 137(1) of the Transport Act 19858;
“goods vehicle” means a motor vehicle or trailer constructed or adapted for use for the carriage or haulage of goods or burden of any description;
“hours of darkness” means the time between half an hour after sunset and half an hour before sunrise;
“level crossing” means a place where a road is crossed by a railway or a tramway on a reserved track on the level;
“local bus” means a public service vehicle used for the provision of a local service not being an excursion or tour;
“local service” has the meaning given in section 2 of the Transport Act 1985;
“major road” means the road at a road junction into which there emerges vehicular traffic from a minor road;
“manually operated” means a change from one sign to another or one signal aspect to another set in process by an operator;
“maximum gross weight” means—
(a) in the case of a motor vehicle not drawing a trailer or in the case of a trailer, its maximum laden weight;
(b) in the case of an articulated vehicle, its maximum laden weight (if it has one) and otherwise the aggregate maximum laden weight of all the individual vehicles forming part of that articulated vehicle; and
(c) in the case of a motor vehicle (other than an articulated vehicle) drawing one or more trailers, the aggregate maximum laden weight of the motor vehicle and the trailer or trailers drawn by it,
and the foregoing references to the maximum laden weight of a vehicle (including a vehicle which is a trailer) are references—
(i) in the case of a vehicle as respects which a gross weight not to be exceeded in Great Britain is specified in construction and use requirements (as defined by section 41(8) of the 1988 Act), to the weight so specified, or
(ii) in the case of a vehicle as respects which no such weight is so specified, to the weight which the vehicle is designed or adapted not to exceed when in normal use and travelling on a road laden.
“minor road” means a road on which, at its junction with another road, there is placed the sign shown in diagram 601.1 or 602 or the road marking shown in diagram 1003;
“mobile road works” means works on a road...
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