{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-general-amendment-directions-1999/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-general-amendment-directions-1999/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1723",
  "legislation_title": "The Traffic Signs General (Amendment) Directions 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-general-amendment-directions-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Directions)\nThese Directions amend the Traffic Signs General Directions 1994 so as to insert a new direction 14A limiting the circumstances in which the traffic sign shown in diagram 674 (entrance to 20 miles per hour speed limit zone) may be placed by a traffic authority. The sign may only be placed on a road (other than a cul-de-sac less than 80 metres long) if no point on any road, to which the speed limit indicated by the sign applies, is situated more than 100 metres from a “traffic calming feature” as defined by direction 14A(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1723/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:33:43.406218+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."
}