{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-humps-scotland-regulations-1998/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-humps-scotland-regulations-1998/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1448",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Humps (Scotland) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-humps-scotland-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations–\n“the Act” means the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;\n“fire authority” means the council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 or, where the area of the fire authority forms part of a combined area for fire-fighting purposes, the joint board for fire services for that combined area;\n“traffic sign” has the same meaning as in section 64 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984;\n“the Traffic Signs Regulations” means the Traffic Signs Regulations 1994.\n(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, measurements between a road hump and any other point shall, as respects that road hump, be taken to or from its edge nearest to the other point.\n(3) A reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c. 39."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1984 c. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/1519, to which there are no relevant amendments."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2005/344",
      "affecting_title": "The Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Modifications and Amendments) (No. 2) Order 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1448/regulation/2",
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  },
  "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."
}