The Road Humps and Traffic Calming (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend–

(a)the Roads (Traffic Calming) (Scotland) Regulations 1994 (“the 1994 Regulations”) which prescribe the traffic calming works which a roads authority may construct in a road maintained by them; and

(b)the Road Humps (Scotland) Regulations 1998 (“the 1998 Regulations”) which make provision as to the construction and maintenance of road humps.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 7 of the 1994 Regulations so that the signing provisions relating to the warning of the presence of traffic calming works do not apply to traffic calming works on a road designated as a home zone.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 7 of the 1998 Regulations so that the signing and lighting provisions and certain provisions relating to the placing of road humps do not apply to a road hump on a road designated as a home zone.