The Traffic Signs (Temporary Obstructions) Regulations 1997

PART I PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Traffic Signs (Temporary Obstructions) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st March 1998.

Revocation

2.  The Traffic Signs (Temporary Obstructions) Regulations 1985(1) are hereby revoked.

Interpretation

3.—(1) In these Regulations—

“the 1994 Regulations” means the Traffic Signs Regulations 1994(2);

“EEA State” means a State which is a contracting Party to the Agreeement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 as adjusted by the protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993(3);

“flat traffic delineator” means a traffic sign which is of the size, colour and type prescribed by regulation 9;

“keep right sign” means a traffic sign which is of the size, colour and type prescribed by regulation 8;

“reflectorised” means illuminated with retroreflecting material, that is to say material which reflects a ray of light back towards the source of that light;

“road vehicle sign” means a traffic sign which is of the size, colour and type prescribed by regulation 10;

“traffic cone” means a traffic sign which is of the size, colour and type prescribed by regulation 11;

“traffic pyramid” means a traffic sign which is of the size, colour and type prescribed by regulation 12;

“traffic triangle” means a traffic sign which is of the size, colour and type prescribed by regulation 13; and

“warning lamp” means a traffic sign which is of the size, colour and type prescribed by regulation 14.

(2) Unless otherwise specified, a reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation or to a numbered Schedule is a reference to the regulation of or, as the case may be, the Schedule to these Regulations so numbered.

(3) The dimensions given in the diagrams in the Schedules to these Regulations are all in millimetres.

(1)

S.I. 1985/463.

(2)

Part I of S.I. 1994/1519, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(3)

Cm 2073 and 2183.