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.