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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/part-1/regulation-3",
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  "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/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prescription of signs",
  "text": "(1) A traffic sign for conveying a warning, information, requirement, restriction or prohibition of a description specified in these Regulations is of a prescribed size, colour and type if it complies with all applicable requirements provided for in these Regulations.\n(2) A school crossing patrol sign is a prescribed sign within the meaning of section 28(4) of the 1984 Act if it complies with all applicable requirements as to size, colour and type provided for in these Regulations.\n(3) The Parts of a Schedule specified in column 2 of an item in the table contain provisions about signs of the class specified in column 3 of the item.\n(1)\nItem\n(2)\nSchedule\n(3)\nPurpose of nature of signs\n1\nSchedule 2\nParts 1 to 7\nSigns that warn of hazards and signs for bridges and other structures\n2\nSchedule 3\nParts 1 to 4\nUpright signs that indicate regulatory requirements for moving traffic\n3\nSchedule 4\nParts 1 to 5\nUpright signs that control waiting, loading and parking along a road\n4\nSchedule 5 Parts 1 to 4\nSigns that indicate parking places and areas subject to parking controls\n5\nSchedule 6\nParts 1 and 2\nUpright signs for red routes\n6\nSchedule 7\nParts 1 to 6\nRoad markings and miscellaneous upright signs that indicate stopping, waiting, loading and parking controls\n7\nSchedule 8\nParts 1 to 4B\nSigns indicating the entrance to and the end of, a pedestrian, or pedestrian and cycle, zone, and signs for charging schemes and low emission zone schemes\n8\nSchedule 9\nParts 1 to 8\nRegulatory signs at junctions and miscellaneous regulatory signs\n9\nSchedule 10\nParts 1 to 3\nSigns for speed limits\n10\nSchedule 11\nParts 1 to 6\nSigns that give information, are advisory or guide traffic\n11\nSchedule 12\nParts 1 to 28\nDirectional signs\n12\nSchedule 13\nParts 1 to 11\nSigns only for use in temporary situations\n13\nSchedule 14\nParts 1 to 5\nSigns for traffic control by light signals, signs for crossings, and signs for lane control\n14\nSchedule 15\nParts 1 to 4\nMatrix signs and light signals for the control of moving traffic on motorways and dual carriageway roads\n15\nSchedule 16\nParts 1 to 7\nVariable message signs\n(4) Where in these Regulations provision is made that to convey a warning, information, requirement, restriction or prohibition of a description specified, a sign must comply with certain requirements as to size, colour and type, that provision is without prejudice to different requirements elsewhere in the Regulations in relation to the same description.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in reg. 3(3) Table substituted (S.) (23.5.2022) by The Traffic Signs Amendment (Scotland) Regulations and General Directions 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/111), regs. 1(2), 3(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 3(3) Table inserted (S.) (23.5.2022) by The Traffic Signs Amendment (Scotland) Regulations and General Directions 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/111), regs. 1(2), 3(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in force at 22.4.2016, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/362/part/1/regulation/3",
    "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."
}