The Traffic Signs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations and General Directions 2011

Amendment of Part I of Schedule 19

32.—(1) Part I of Schedule 19 (significance of bus stop and bus stand clearway markings) is amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph 3, substitute—

“3.— (1) Where the sign shown in diagram 974 or 975 is placed and is not varied to “except local buses”, nothing in paragraph 2 applies to the driver of a bus who causes the bus to stop within the clearway for so long as may be necessary—

(a) to maintain a published timetable for the service (provided, in the case of a bus stop clearway, that the bus is not stopped within the clearway for a period exceeding two minutes);

(b) to enable passengers to board or alight from the bus; or

(c) to enable the crew of the bus to be changed.

(2) Where the sign shown in diagram 974 or 975 is placed and is varied to “except local buses”, nothing in paragraph 2 applies to the driver of a bus being used in the provision of a local service who causes the bus to stop within the clearway for so long as may be necessary—

(a) to maintain a published timetable for the service (provided, in the case of a bus stop clearway, that the bus is not stopped within the clearway for a period exceeding two minutes);

(b) to enable passengers to board or alight from the bus; or

(c) to enable the crew of the bus to be changed.”.

(3) In paragraph 4(1) (other exceptions)—

(a) in sub-paragraph (a), for “or police purposes” substitute “, police or traffic officer purposes”; and

(b) in sub-paragraph (b)—

(i) after sub-paragraph (ii), omit “or”; and

(ii) after sub-paragraph (iii), insert—

“or

(iv) a traffic officer in uniform;”.