{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/schedule-14/part-1/paragraph-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/schedule-14/part-1/paragraph-21.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/14/part/1/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Significance of stripes and other road markings at Parallel crossings and in Parallel controlled areas",
  "text": "(1) The stripes and other signs that comprise a Parallel crossing convey the prohibition—\n(a) to the driver of a vehicle proceeding along the carriageway, that the driver must not cause the vehicle or any part of it to stop within the limits of the crossing unless the driver is prevented from proceeding by circumstances beyond the driver’s control or it is necessary for the driver to stop to avoid injury or damage to persons or property; and\n(b) to a pedestrian , driver of an electric scooter being used in a trial or cyclist crossing the carriageway within the part of the crossing intended for (as the case may be) pedestrians , drivers of electric scooters being used in a trial or cyclists, that that they must not remain on the carriageway longer than is reasonably necessary to pass over the crossing with reasonable despatch.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 14 Pt. 1 para. 21(1)(b) inserted (E.) (4.7.2020) by The Electric Scooter Trials and Traffic Signs (Coronavirus) Regulations and General Directions 2020 (S.I. 2020/663), regs. 1(2), 5(15)(d)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 14 Pt. 1 para. 21(1)(b) inserted (E.) (4.7.2020) by The Electric Scooter Trials and Traffic Signs (Coronavirus) Regulations and General Directions 2020 (S.I. 2020/663), regs. 1(2), 5(15)(d)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 14 Pt. 1 para. 21 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/14/part/1/paragraph/21",
    "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."
}