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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/schedule-12/part-22",
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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": "schedule/12/part/22",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Sign background for signs indicating services",
  "text": "Sign table — Schedule 12, Part 22\n(1)\nItem\n(2)\nDescription\n(3)\nSign background\n(4)\nLegend height, requirements and variants\n1\nSign indicating a motorway service area or motorway rest area where parking, toilets and, in the case of a service area, fuel and refreshments are available 24 hours a day throughout the year\n(Type A and B)\n1. The x-height of the legend must be not less than 75 mm, nor more than 400 mm;\n2. The legend “Services” must be included on the sign or it may be varied to “Rest area”, or a geographical name and “services” or “rest area”;\n3. Diagram A may incorporate an arrow as shown at item 1 of the sign table in Part 24 and where indicating the exit from a motorway the sign may also incorporate the number of the route to which the exit leads;\n4. Diagram A may incorporate a distance in accordance with paragraph 7 of Part 3 of Schedule 18;\n5. Diagram B may be reversed to point right;\n6. Where diagram A does not incorporate an arrow, it may incorporate the symbols shown in column 3 of the sign table in Part 24 at items 2 to 11 except that no more than six symbols, excluding that at item 9, may be shown;\n7. Diagram A may incorporate either a panel shown at item 14 or 15 of the sign table in Part 24, except that the panel shown at item 14 must not be incorporated where the sign incorporates a symbol shown at item 11 of that table\n2\nSign indicating services on a primary or non-primary route, other than a motorway service area, where fuel, parking, refreshments and toilets are available at least between 8 am and 8 pm on every day except Christmas Day, Boxing Day\nand New Year’s Day\n(Type A and B)\n1. The x-height of the legend must be not less than 75 mm, nor more than\n300 mm;\n2. The legend “Services” must be included on the sign or it may be varied to a geographical name and “services”;\n3. Diagram A may incorporate the arrows and symbols shown in Part 24 of this Schedule as appropriate except that no more than six symbols, excluding that at item 12 of the sign table in that Part, may be shown;\n4. Diagram A may incorporate a distance in accordance with paragraph 7 of Part 3 of Schedule 18;\n5. Diagram A may incorporate either a panel provided for at item 16 or 17 of the sign table in Part 24 of this Schedule;\n6. Diagram B may be reversed to point right\n3\nSign indicating either a motorway truckstop where parking, refreshments, toilets and fuel are available 24 hours a day throughout the year, or a non-motorway truckstop where parking, refreshments and toilets are available, and fuel may be available, at least between 8 am and 8 pm on every day except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day\n(Type A and B)\n1. The x-height of the legend must be not less than 75 mm, nor more than 400 mm;\n2. The legend “Truckstop” must be included on the sign or it may be varied to a geographical name and “truckstop”;\n3. Diagram A may incorporate an arrow shown at item 1 of the sign table in Part 24;\n4. Where diagram A indicates a motorway truckstop and does not incorporate an arrow, the sign may incorporate the symbols shown at items 2 to 8 and 11 in the sign table in Part 24 except that no more than six of these symbols may be shown;\n5. Where diagram A indicates a non-motorway truckstop it may incorporate the symbols shown at items 2 to 8 in column 3 of the sign table in Part 24 except that no more than six of these symbols may be shown;\n6. Diagram A, when indicating a motorway truckstop, may incorporate a panel provided for at item 14 or 15 of the sign table in Part 24, except that the panel at item 14 must not be incorporated where the sign incorporates a symbol provided for at item 11 in that table;\n7. Diagram A when indicating a non-motorway truckstop, may incorporate a panel provided for at item 16 or 17 of the sign table in Part 24;\n8. Diagram A may incorporate a distance in accordance with paragraph 7 of Part 3 of Schedule 18;\n9. Diagram B may be reversed to point right",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 Pt. 22 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/schedule/12/part/22",
    "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."
}