The Traffic Signs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations and General Directions 2023

PART 2 The Traffic Signs (Amendment) (Wales) General Directions 2023

Title, application and coming into force

7.—(1) This Part of this Instrument may be cited—

(a) as the Traffic Signs (Amendment) (Wales) General Directions 2023, and

(b) together with Part 1, as the Traffic Signs (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations and General Directions 2023.

(2) These General Directions come into force on 17 September 2023.

Amendment to the Traffic Signs General Directions 2016

8.  The Traffic Signs General Directions 2016(1) are amended in accordance with directions 9 and 10.

Amendment of Schedule 10

9.  In Schedule 10, in Part 4 (The Schedule 10 General Directions) for paragraph 2, substitute—

“2.   This sign must not be placed as a repeater sign where—

(a) in relation to England, the road is subject to a maximum speed limit of 30 mph and has a system of carriageway lighting; or

(b) in relation to Wales, the road is subject to a maximum speed limit of 20 mph and has a system of carriageway lighting.”

Amendment of Schedule 13

10.  In Schedule 13, in Part 12 (The Schedule 13 General Directions) after paragraph 13, insert—

“13A.   The sign may only be placed—-

(a) to indicate or give warning of the point at which a recently imposed speed limit of 20 mph begins on a road; and

(b) during the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which the 20 mph speed limit comes into force.”

(1)

Part 2 of S.I. 2016/362.