PART IIPrincipal Road Safety Provisions
Traffic directions and traffic signs
F1Contravention of directions49.
(1)
If a person, without reasonable excuse, contravenes a direction given by a constable in uniform carrying out functions under the Road Traffic Orders, he is guilty of an offence.
(2)
A constable in uniform giving a direction for the purposes of a traffic survey of any description which is carried out on or in the vicinity of a road shall be deemed for the purposes of paragraph (1) to be carrying out functions under the Orders referred to in paragraph (1).
(3)
The power to give a direction for the purposes of a traffic survey shall be so exercised as not to cause any unreasonable delay to a person who indicates that he is unwilling to furnish any information for the purposes of the survey.
(4)
In paragraphs (2) and (3) “direction” means a direction—
(a)
to stop a vehicle;
(b)
to make it proceed in, or keep to, a particular line of traffic; or
(c)
to make it proceed to a particular point on or near the road on which the vehicle is being driven or propelled,
but does not include a direction requiring any person to furnish any information for the purposes of a traffic survey.