{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989/regulation-17A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989/regulation-17A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1796",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-vehicles-lighting-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/17A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17A",
  "heading": "Signs on buses carrying children",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (2), no person shall use or cause or permit to be used on a road a bus when it is carrying a child to or from his school unless—\n(a) a prescribed sign is fitted to the front of the bus and is plainly visible to road users ahead of the bus, and\n(b) a prescribed sign is fitted to the rear of the bus and is plainly visible to road users behind the bus.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply where a bus is on a bus service of a description specified in paragraph 2 of the Schedule to the Fuel Duty Grant (Eligible Bus Services) Regulations 1985.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) a reference to a bus carrying a child to or from his school is a reference to a bus carrying a child—\n(i) to, or to a place within the vicinity of, his school on a day during term time before he has attended the school on that day; or\n(ii) from, or from a place within the vicinity of, his school on a day during term time after he has finished attending the school on that day;\n(b) “school” has the meaning given by section 114 of the Education Act 1944; and\n(c) a reference to a child is a reference to a child under the age of 16 years.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 17A inserted (1.4.1995) by The Road Vehicles Lighting (Amendment) Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2280), regs. 1(2), 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/regulation/17A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:36:39.481273+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."
}