{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2002/regulation-59",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2002/regulation-59.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": "regulation/59",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "59",
  "heading": "Special directions",
  "text": "Nothing in these Directions shall be taken to limit the power of the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers and the National Assembly of Wales by special direction to dispense with, add to or modify any of the requirements of these Directions in their application to any particular case.",
  "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. 57(5) substituted (30.1.2012) by The Traffic Signs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations and General Directions 2011 (S.I. 2011/3041), dirs. 1(1)(c), 34(3) (with dir. 36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Dir. 59 in force at 31.1.2003, see dir. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "See S.I. 1999/672 and 1750."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3113/regulation/59",
    "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."
}