Explanatory note

This Order brings into force on 1st August 1989 sections 36 to 40 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 in respect of the areas of Tayside and Lothian Regional Councils. These sections provide for the construction of road humps and make provision for prior consultation and other procedures relating to proposals by roads authorities to construct road humps. They also empower the Secretary of State to make regulations concerning the construction and maintenance of road humps and the status of road humps which conform to such regulations.

The remaining provisions of the 1984 Act are already in force throughout Scotland.