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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2002/schedule-19/paragraph-4",
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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": "schedule/19/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Other exceptions",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in paragraph 2 applies in relation to—\n(a) a vehicle being used for fire brigade Scottish Fire and Rescue Service or, in England, fire and rescue authority or, in England or Wales, fire and rescue authority, ... special forces , police or traffic officer purposes;\n(aza) a vehicle being used for ambulance purposes or for the purpose of providing a response to an emergency at the request of an NHS ambulance service;\n(aa) as regards England and Wales, and so far as relating to the functions of the Serious Organised Crime Agency which are exercisable in or as regards Scotland and which relate to reserved matters (within the meaning of the Scotland Act 1998), a vehicle being used for Serious Organised Crime Agency purposes;\n(ab) so far as relating to the functions of the Serious Organised Crime Agency which are exercisable in or as regards Scotland and which do not (within the meaning of the Scotland Act 1998) relate to reserved matters, a vehicle being used for Serious Organised Crime Agency purposes;\n(b) anything done with the permission or at the direction of—\n(i) a constable in uniform;\n(ii) a traffic warden; ...\n(iii) where the clearway is in a special parking area designated under Part II of the Road Traffic Act 1991 or Schedule 3 to that Act, a parking attendant appointed under section 63A of the 1984 Act; or\n(iv) a traffic officer in uniform;\n(c) a vehicle which is prevented from proceeding by circumstances beyond the driver’s control or which has to be stopped in order to avoid injury or damage to persons or property;\n(d) a taxi which is stationary only for so long as may be reasonably necessary for a passenger to board or alight and to load or unload any luggage of the passenger;\n(e) a marked vehicle which, whilst used by a universal service provider in the course of the provision of a universal postal service, is stationary only for so long as may be reasonably necessary for postal packets to be collected;\n(f) a vehicle driven by a person whilst being trained to drive a bus operating local services who, as part of his training, stops the vehicle within a clearway for no longer than necessary to simulate the stopping of a bus at a bus stop for the purpose of picking up and setting down passengers;\n(g) a vehicle which is stationary in order that it may be used for one or more of the purposes specified in paragraph 5 and which cannot be used for such a purpose without stopping in the clearway.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(e) the expressions “universal service provider”, “provision of a universal postal service” and “postal packet” shall bear the same meanings as in the Part 3 of the Postal Services Act 2011 .",
  "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": "Words in Sch. 19 para. 4(1)(a) substituted (S.) (2.8.2005) by The Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Modifications and Amendments) (No. 2) Order 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/344), art. 1, sch. 1 para. 27(2)(e); S.S.I. 2005/392, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 19 para. 4(1)(a) substituted (S.) (1.4.2013) by The Police and Fire Reform (Scotland) Act 2012 (Consequential Modifications and Savings) Order 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/119), art. 1, sch. 2 para. 19(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 19 para. 4 inserted (E.) (30.12.2004) by The Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) (England) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/3168), arts. 1(1), 64(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 19 para. 4(1)(a) inserted (W.) (25.10.2005) by The Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) (Wales) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2929), arts. 1(1), 74(2)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 19 para. 4(1)(a) omitted (26.5.2015) by virtue of Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(d), Sch. 9 para. 26(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 19 para. 4(1)(a) inserted (15.4.2011) by The Road Traffic Exemptions (Special Forces) (Variation and Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/935), regs. 1(1), 7(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 19 para. 4(1)(a) 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(3)(b)(ii) (with regs. 35, 36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Sch. 19 para. 4(1)(aza) inserted (26.5.2015) by Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20), s. 115(3)(d), Sch. 9 para. 26(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Sch. 19 para. 4(1)(aa) inserted (1.4.2006) by The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Consequential and Supplementary Amendments to Secondary Legislation) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/594), art. 1, Sch. para. 32(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Sch. 19 para. 4(1)(ab) inserted (S.) (1.4.2006) by The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Consequential and Supplementary Amendments) (Scotland) Order 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/129), art. 1, sch. para. 8(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 19 para. 4(1)(b)(ii) omitted (30.1.2012) by virtue of The Traffic Signs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations and General Directions 2011 (S.I. 2011/3041), regs. 1(1)(c), 32(3)(b)(ii) (with regs. 35, 36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Sch. 19 para. 4(1)(b)(iv) and word inserted (30.1.2012) by The Traffic Signs (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations and General Directions 2011 (S.I. 2011/3041), regs. 1(1)(c), 32(3)(b)(ii) (with regs. 35, 36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 19 para. 4(2) substituted (1.10.2011) by The Postal Services Act 2011 (Consequential Modifications and Amendments) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2085), art. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 51"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 19 para. 4 in force at 31.1.2003, see reg. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 63A was inserted by the Road Traffic Act 1991 section 44(1) and was amended by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29) section 289."
    }
  ],
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    "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."
}