{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/part-1/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/part-1/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/362",
  "legislation_title": "The Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016",
  "path": "part/1/regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and extent",
  "text": "(1) This Part of this Instrument—\n(a) may be cited—\n(i) as the Traffic Signs Regulations 2016, and\n(ii) together with Part 2, as the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016; and\n(b) comes into force on 22nd April 2016.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations extend to the whole of Great Britain.\n(3) Provision about the school crossing patrol sign extends only to England and Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 22.4.2016, see reg. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "For provision about the school crossing patrol sign in Scotland, see the School Crossing Patrol Sign (Scotland) Regulations 2008 (S.S.I. 2008/4)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/362/part/1/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:41:34.516500+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."
}