{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-amendment-general-directions-2004/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-amendment-general-directions-2004/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1275",
  "legislation_title": "The Traffic Signs (Amendment) General Directions 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-amendment-general-directions-2004",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Traffic Signs General Directions 2002",
  "text": "(1) Direction 42 of the Traffic Signs General Directions 2002 is amended as follows.\n(2) At the end of paragraph (5) insert “and, if coloured yellow, may be—\n(a) reflectorised;\n(b) fluorescent; or\n(c) both reflectorised and fluorescent”.\n(3) For paragraphs (6) and (7) substitute—\n“(6) Except as provided in paragraph (7), a yellow backing board for a sign shall be rectangular in shape.\n(7) A backing board for a combination of the sign shown in diagram 2402.1 with the sign shown in diagram 670 may be of any shape including rectangular.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Part II of S.I. 2002/3113, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Directions."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1275/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:26:16.361250+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."
}