The Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and the Traffic Signs (Amendment) General Directions 1989

PART I THE TRAFFIC SIGNS (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 1989

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations 1989 and shall come into force on 18th December 1989.

2.  The Traffic Signs Regulations 1981(1) shall be further amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

3.  In regulation 7 –

(a) in the cross heading for the words “section 22 of the Road Traffic Act 1972”(2) there shall be substituted “section 36 of the Road Traffic Act 1988”;

(b) in paragraph (1) for the words “section 22 of the Road Traffic Act 1972” there shall be substituted “section 36 of the Road Traffic Act 1988”;

(c) in paragraph (1)(a) after “616” there shall be inserted “,629.2”;

(d) in paragraph (2) for the words “column 5 of Part I of Schedule 4 to the said Act of 1972 in relation to section 22 thereof,” there shall be substituted “column 5 of the entry in Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988(3) relating to offences under section 36 of the Road Traffic Act 1988”; and

(e) the word “and” immediately following paragraph (2)(f) shall be omitted and after paragraph (2)(g) there shall be inserted the following words –

“; and

(h) the sign shown in the diagram numbered 629.2.”.

(1)

S.I. 1981/859, Pt.I; relevant amending instrument is S.I. 1984/966, Pt.I.

(2)

1972 c. 20 which was repealed by section 3(1) and Part I of Schedule 1 to the Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 c. 54.

(3)

1988 c. 53.