Explanatory note

These Regulations, which re-enact the Road Humps (Scotland) Regulations 1989 with amendments, make provision in relation to the construction and maintenance of road humps.

Regulation 2 deals with interpretation. Regulation 3 contains provisions for consultation about road hump proposals. Regulation 4 re-enacts with amendments the requirement that a road hump shall only be constructed in a road which is lit as there specified and where one or more of the features there specified exist. Regulation 5 re-enacts with amendments the provisions in respect of the nature, dimensions, location and spacing of road humps. In addition to the one permitted design allowed in the 1989 Regulations, paragraph (1) provides that a road hump shall only be constructed according to the dimensions and nature as specified therein and in the Schedule. Paragraphs (2) and (3) re-enact the earlier provisions that in any “Zebra” crossing a road hump is constructed as specified therein and in diagrams 1 or 3 of the Schedule. Paragraphs (4) and (5) are new provisions to provide that on any “Pelican” crossing a road hump is constructed as specified therein and in diagrams 1 or 3 of the Schedule. Paragraph (6) re-enacts the previous provisions that road humps shall not be constructed at locations or in the circumstances specified therein. Regulation 6 prescribes both new and existing traffic signs to be placed and maintained in connection with road humps. Regulation 7 is a new provision which specifies those provisions in the Regulations which do not apply where road humps are to be placed in a road subject to a speed limit of 20 m.p.h. or less.