{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-amendment-scotland-regulations-and-general-directions-2022/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-amendment-scotland-regulations-and-general-directions-2022/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2022/111",
  "legislation_title": "The Traffic Signs Amendment (Scotland) Regulations and General Directions 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-amendment-scotland-regulations-and-general-directions-2022",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Amendment of schedule 8",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 8 (signs indicating the entrance to and the end of a pedestrian, or pedestrian and cycle, zone, and signs for charging schemes) is amended as follows.\n(2) In the heading, after “charging schemes” insert “and low emission zone schemes”.\n(3) In Part 1 (provisions applying to signs in Part 2), after paragraph 2 insert—\n“3. In respect of items 1A and 2A, each lamp incorporated into the sign must show an intermittent amber light at a rate of flashing of not less than 60 nor more than 90 flashes per minute, and in such a manner that the lights of one horizontal pair are always illuminated when the lights of the other horizontal pair are not illuminated.”.\n(4) In the table in Part 2 (signs indicating pedestrian and pedestrian and cycle zones)—\n(a) after the entry for item 1 insert—\n“\n1A\nDiagram 618.3BA\nEntry to, and waiting in, a pedestrian zone restricted: version incorporating flashing lights (alternative to item 1)\n1. The following symbols and legends may be included in the middle panel to provide for exceptions (including in any combination, provided there is an “and” or “&” before the last exception)—\n(a)\nthe legend “buses” or “local buses”\n(b)\nthe legend “taxis”\n(c)\nthe legend “for access”, “for loading”, or “for loading by” and the goods vehicle symbol\n(d)\nthe legend “permit holders”, “permit holder”, and, if appropriate, a permit identifier or identifiers\n(e)\nthe disabled badge holder symbol.\n2. The middle panel may include a time period.\n3. The time period in the lower panel may be varied.\n4. The lower panel may be omitted.\n5. The middle panel may be omitted when the lower panel is omitted.\n”,\n(b) after the entry for item 2, insert—\n“\n2A\nDiagram 618.3D\nEntry to, and waiting in, a pedestrian and cycle zone restricted: version incorporating flashing lights\n(alternative to item 2)\n1. The following symbols and legends may be included in the middle panel to provide for exceptions (including in any combination, provided there is an “and” or “&” before the last exception)—\n(a)\nthe legend “buses” or “local buses”\n(b)\nthe legend “taxis”\n(c)\nthe legend “for access”, “for loading”, or “for loading by” and the goods vehicle symbol\n(d)\nthe legend “permit holders”, “permit holder”, and, if appropriate, a permit identifier or identifiers\n(e)\nthe disabled badge holder symbol.\n2. The middle panel may include a time period.\n3. The time period in the lower panel may be varied.\n4. The lower panel may be omitted.\n5. The middle panel may be omitted when the lower panel is omitted.\n”.\n(5) After Part 4 (signs and markings indicating a congestion charging zone), insert—\n“PART 4A\nProvisions applying to signs in Part 4B\n1. The information of a description in column 2 of an item in the sign table in Part 4B must be conveyed by a sign that is—\n(a) of the colour and type, and\n(b) complies with the requirements as to size,\nshown in the diagram in column 3 of the item.\nPART 4B\nSigns and markings indicating a low emission zone\nSign table — Schedule 8, Part 4B\n(1)\nItem\n(2)\nSign description\n(3)\nSign diagram\n1\nDiagram 680\nEntrance to a low emission zone\n2\nDiagram 895\nReminder to drivers within a low emission zone in which cameras are used to identify contraventions of a low emission zone scheme\n3\nDiagram 681\nEnd of low emission zone\n4\nDiagram 1070\nRoad marking indicating the commencement of a low emission zone\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2022/111/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:50:39.449383+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."
}