{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2002/part-2/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2002/part-2/schedule-2/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/3113",
  "legislation_title": "The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2002",
  "path": "part/2/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“approaching vehicular traffic” in relation to a portable crossing means vehicular traffic approaching the crossing along the carriageway across which the crossing is placed;\n“far side signals” means light signals of the size, colour and type shown in diagram 4002.1;\n“push button device” means—\n(a)a sign of the size, colour and type shown in diagram 4003; or\n(b)a sign—\n(i)of the size, colour and type of only the part of the sign shown in diagram 4003.1 which includes the push button and the legend above it; and\n(ii)which, whilst the red signal is illuminated, in some way indicates to pedestrians whether the push button device has been activated.\n“system of staggered portable crossings” means two portable crossings provided on a road on which there is a central reservation and where—\n(a)there is one portable crossing on each side of the central reservation; and\n(b)taken together the two portable crossings do not lie in a straight line;\n“portable crossing” means a portable signal-controlled pedestrian facility; and\nreferences to the left or right hand side of a portable crossing are to the left or right hand side as viewed by approaching vehicular traffic.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 revoked (22.4.2016) by The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 (S.I. 2016/362), dir. 1(1)(b), Sch. 19 Pt. 2 (with dirs. 12, 13)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Sch. 2 inserted (9.5.2011) by The Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations and General Directions 2011 (S.I. 2011/1040), dir. 1(1)(c), Sch. (with dir. 15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3113/part/2/schedule/2/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:35:51.675498+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."
}