{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/part-2/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/part-2/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/2/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 General Directions 2016; and\n(ii) together with Part 1, as the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016; and\n(b) comes into force on 22nd April 2016.\n(2) These General Directions extend to the whole of Great Britain.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Dir. 1 in force at 22.4.2016, see dir. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/362/part/2/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."
}