{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984/section-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984/section-69.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/27",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984",
  "path": "section/69",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "General provisions as to removal of signs.",
  "text": "(1) The traffic authority may by notice in writing require the owner or occupier of any land on which there is an object or device (whether fixed or portable) for the guidance or direction of persons using the road to remove it.\n(2) If a person fails to comply with such a notice, the traffic authority may themselves effect the removal, doing as little damage as may be; and the expenses incurred by them in doing so shall be recoverable by them from the person in default, and, in England or Wales, shall be so recoverable summarily as a civil debt.\n(3) The national authority may give directions to a strategic highways company or a local traffic authority requiring it or them to remove, or cause to be removed, any traffic sign or any such object or device as is mentioned in subsection (1) above.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 69(1) substituted (1.11.1991) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 168(1), Sch. 8 para. 52(2)(a); which substitution is in force for Scotland only by S.I. 1991/2286, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 and for England and Wales only by S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 69(1) substituted (1.11.1991) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 168(1), Sch. 8 para. 52(2)(b); which substitution is in force for Scotland only by S.I. 1991/2286, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 and for England and Wales only by S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3,Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 69(2) substituted (1.11.1991) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 168(1), Sch. 8 para. 52(3); which substitution is in force for Scotland only by S.I. 1991/2286, art. 2(2), Sch.2 and for England and Wales only by S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3,Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 69(3) substituted (23.5.2016) by Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11), ss. 41(10), 72(7) (with Sch. 2 paras. 34(2), 35(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 69(3) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 83(a); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 69(3) substituted (1.11.1991) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 168(1), Sch. 8 para. 52(4); which substitution is in force for Scotland only by S.I. 1991/2286, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 and for England and Wales only by S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3,Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 69(3) substituted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 83(b); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 69(1)(2)(3): transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by S.I 1999/1750, art. 2, Sch. 1; S.I. 1998/3178, art. 3"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/section/69",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:02:32.152245+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."
}