{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/schedule-13/part-7/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/schedule-13/part-7/paragraph-7.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": "schedule/13/part/7/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The triangle must be legibly and permanently marked with the marking designated as an approval mark by regulation 4 of the Motor Vehicles (Designation of Approval Marks) Regulations 1979 and shown in item 27 of Schedule 2 to those Regulations.\n(2) The surface coloured red and marked A must be reflectorised;\n(3) Not more than 15 square centimetre of the surface marked A may be obscured by constructional components;\n(4) The surface coloured red and marked B must be fluorescent;\n(5) The surface marked C must be either—\n(a) entirely reflectorised; or\n(b) a combination of reflectorised and fluorescent;\n(6) Not more than 10 square centimetre of the surface marked A may be obscured by constructional components;\n(7) In the case of the triangle provided for at item 33—\n(a) the surface coloured red and marked A must be reflectorised;\n(b) the surface coloured red and marked B must be fluorescent and have an area of not less than 315 square centimetres;\n(c) the edging coloured red and marked C may be omitted.\n(8) Corners of a triangle must be radiused.\n(9) All sides of a triangle must be of the same length.\n(10) The reflectorised areas of the surface may be internally illuminated provided that such illumination is steady, presents a uniform appearance throughout that area and does not impair the retroreflecting properties of that area of the surface.\n(11) The triangle must not be illuminated through external illumination.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 13 Pt. 7 para. 7 in force at 22.4.2016, see reg. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1979/1088, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/362/schedule/13/part/7/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}