{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2002/schedule-19/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2002/schedule-19/paragraph-3.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": "schedule/19/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Exceptions in favour of buses",
  "text": "(1) Where the sign shown in diagram 974 or 975 is placed and is not varied to “except local buses”, nothing in paragraph 2 applies to the driver of a bus who causes the bus to stop within the clearway for so long as may be necessary—\n(a) to maintain a published timetable for the service (provided, in the case of a bus stop clearway, that the bus is not stopped within the clearway for a period exceeding two minutes);\n(b) to enable passengers to board or alight from the bus; or\n(c) to enable the crew of the bus to be changed.\n(2) Where the sign shown in diagram 974 or 975 is placed and is varied to “except local buses”, nothing in paragraph 2 applies to the driver of a bus being used in the provision of a local service who causes the bus to stop within the clearway for so long as may be necessary—\n(a) to maintain a published timetable for the service (provided, in the case of a bus stop clearway, that the bus is not stopped within the clearway for a period exceeding two minutes);\n(b) to enable passengers to board or alight from the bus; or\n(c) to enable the crew of the bus to be changed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 1 revoked (22.4.2016) by The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016 (S.I. 2016/362), reg. 1(1)(b), Sch. 19 Pt. 1 (with regs. 4, 14, 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 19 para. 3 substituted (30.1.2012) by The Traffic Signs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations and General Directions 2011 (S.I. 2011/3041), regs. 1(1)(c), 32(2) (with regs. 35, 36)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3113/schedule/19/paragraph/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."
}