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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2002/schedule-19/paragraph-5",
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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/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Permitted purposes",
  "text": "The purposes referred to in paragraph 4(g) are—\n(a) any operation involving building, demolition or excavation;\n(b) the removal of any obstruction to traffic;\n(c) the maintenance, improvement or reconstruction of a road;\n(d) constructing, improving, maintaining or cleaning any street furniture including bus stop infrastructure; or\n(e) the laying, erection, alteration, repair or cleaning of any sewer or of any main, pipe or apparatus for the supply of gas, water or electricity, or of any electronic communications apparatus kept installed for the purposes of a electronic communications code system or of any other electronic communications apparatus lawfully kept installed in any position.",
  "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. 5 substituted (17.9.2003) by The Communications Act 2003 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/2155), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 50(2)(a)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 19 para. 5 in force at 31.1.2003, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/3113/schedule/19/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}