{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2002/part-II/regulation-3",
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  "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/II/regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation—general",
  "text": "(1) In these Directions—\n(a) “one-way road” means a road on which the driving of vehicles otherwise than in one particular direction is prohibited;\n(b) “permit parking area” means an area into which each entrance for vehicular traffic has been indicated by the sign shown in diagram 663.3;\n(c) “restricted parking zone” means an area—\n(i) into which each entrance for vehicular traffic has been indicated by the sign shown in diagram 663.2; and\n(ii) in which none of the road markings shown in diagrams 1017, 1018.1, 1019 and 1020.1 has been placed;\n(d) “two-way street” means a road which is not a one-way road;\n(e) “the Regulations” means the Traffic Signs Regulations 2002; and\n(f) the expressions listed in paragraph (2) have the same meaning as in the Regulations.\n(2) Those expressions are—\n“the 1984 Act”;\n“central reservation”;\n“contra-flow”;\n“controlled parking zone”;\n“cycle lane”;\n“cycle track”;\n“dual carriageway road”;\n“EEA Standard”;\n“equestrian crossing”;\n“hard shoulder” and “actively managed hard shoulder;”\n“junction”;\n“level crossing”;\n“maximum gross weight”;\n“motorway”;\n“mph”;\n“non-primary route”;\n“pedal cycle”;\n“pedestrian zone”;\n“plate”;\n“portable signal-controlled pedestrian facility”;\n“primary route”;\n“primary signals”;\n“principal road”;\n“reflectorised”;\n“retroreflecting material”;\n“road marking”;\n“route”;\n“school crossing place”;\n“secondary signals”;\n“sign”;\n“signal-controlled crossing facility”;\n“signal-controlled pedestrian facility”;\n“speed limit” and “national speed limit”;\n“stud”;\n“temporary statutory provision”;\n“traffic lane”;\n“Toucan crossing”;\n“variable message sign”;\n“Zebra crossing”; and\n“zig-zag line”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "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": "Dir. 3(1) substituted (30.1.2012) by The Traffic Signs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations and General Directions 2011 (S.I. 2011/3041), dirs. 1(1)(c), 3 (with dir. 36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in dir. 3(2) inserted (27.7.2005) by The Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations and General Directions 2005 (S.I. 2005/1670), dirs. 1(c), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in dir. 3(2) inserted (9.5.2011) by The Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations and General Directions 2011 (S.I. 2011/1040), dirs. 1(1)(c), 3(b) (with dir. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Dir. 3 in force at 31.1.2003, see dir. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3113/part/II/regulation/3",
    "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."
}