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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/392",
  "legislation_title": "Traffic Signs (Amendment No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-amendment-no-2-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations.)\nThese regulations further amend the Traffic Signs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1979 by—\n(a) inserting definitions for dual carriageway road and motorway (regulation 2(i));\n(b) substituting new diagrams for the light signals used to control vehicular traffic entering or proceeding along a motorway or dual carriageway road (regulation 2(2) and (7)(ii));\n(c) extending the use of the flashing amber warning signal to vehicular traffic on dual carriageway roads (regulation 2(3) and (7)(ii));\n(d) providing for the use of matrix signs for conveying to traffic on motorways and dual carriageway roads information or a warning, requirement, restriction, prohibition or speed limit relating to or arising out of temporary hazardous conditions on or near the motorway or road (regulation 2(4) and (7)(i));\n(e) permitting the use of blue flashing beacons to warn drivers of vehicles to take special care (regulation 2(5));\n(f) specifying the requirements for a wide range of variable message signs. Variable message signs are devices capable of displaying different signs or legends or a blank face at different times and may be used for the control of traffic both vehicular and pedestrian and with respect to the use of vehicles on roads (regulation 2(5) and (8)); and\n(g) prescribing new signs and plates for indicating the existence of a speed check area manned by police, for indicating diversionary routes, and for indicating the imminent commencement of a cycle lane (regulation 2(6)).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/392/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:33:59.667341+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."
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