{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-traffic-calming-regulations-1999/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-traffic-calming-regulations-1999/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1026",
  "legislation_title": "The Highways (Traffic Calming) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-traffic-calming-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“build-out” means a work for narrowing a carriageway constructed on one side of that carriageway as an extension of or adjacent to the verge, footway or cycle track;\n“chicane” means a series of two or more build-outs constructed on alternate sides of the carriageway and not opposite one another;\n“gateway” means an object or structure constructed on the verge, footway or cycle track of a highway for the purpose of indicating the presence in a length of highway of traffic calming works of a description prescribed by these Regulations or specially authorised by the Secretary of State or of road humps;\n“island” means a work without facilities for pedestrians constructed in a carriageway to reduce carriageway width or to deflect the flow of vehicular traffic;\n“overrun area” means an area of carriageway so constructed of textured or coloured material as to appear to narrow that carriageway;\n“pinch point” means build-outs constructed on both sides of a carriageway opposite one another;\n“rumble device” means a part of the carriageway constructed of material intended to generate noise or vibration in a vehicle passing over it;\n“traffic sign” has the same meaning as in section 64 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984; and\n“20 miles per hour zone” means a zone comprising one or more roads in relation to which the following conditions are satisfied–\n(a) a speed limit of 20 miles per hour applies to each road within the zone;\n(b) a traffic sign of the size, colour and type shown in diagram 674 of the Traffic Signs Regulations 1994 is placed at each entrance to the zone for vehicular traffic.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Part 1 of S.I. 1994/1519, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1026/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:51:50.866883+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}