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SCHEDULE 12Directional signs

PART 10Provisions applying to Parts 11 and 12

1.  Information or a restriction of a description in column 2 of an item in the sign table in Part 11 must be conveyed by the inclusion of the symbol of the size, colour and type shown in the diagram in column 3, or that diagram as varied in accordance with column 5, on a directional sign with an appropriate background.

2.  In the case of items 10 and 36, the reference in paragraph 1 to a symbol shown in the diagram is to the description of the symbol in column 3, or, in the case of item 10, that description as varied in accordance with column 5.

3.  In the case of item 24, the description in column 2 is supplemented by the description in (a) to (d) in column 3.

4.  A sign which contains a symbol provided for at item 25 or 26 of the Part 11 sign table may additionally include a legend provided for at an item number in the sign table in Part 12.

5.—(1) An appropriate background for a symbol provided for in the Part 11 sign table is one referred to in column 4 of the sign table in Part 11 by reference to an item number in the sign table in Part 2.

(2) Unless otherwise stated at the entry in column 4, the reference to an appropriate background is to both backgrounds A and B at the item number in question in the Part 2 sign table.

6.  An appropriate background of the type provided for at item 4 of the Part 2 sign table must always incorporate at least one of the following symbols shown in the Part 11 sign table—

(a)a “Park and Ride” symbol provided for at item 24;

(b)the parking place symbol at item 25;

(c)a parking place symbol at item 26.

7.  An appropriate background of the type provided for at item 7 of the Part 2 sign table must always incorporate the white lorry symbol at item 2 of the Part 11 sign table.

8.  An appropriate background of the type provided for at item 8 of the Part 2 sign table must always incorporate the white cycle symbol at item 3 of the Part 11 sign table.

9.  The sizes in the diagram are stroke widths.