{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
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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/2/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub paragraph (2), where the sign is placed on a road within 50 metres of any lamp which forms part of a system of street-lighting, the illumination requirements for the sign are—\n(a) where that system of street-lighting is illuminated throughout the hours of darkness, the sign must be illuminated by internal or external lighting for so long as that system is illuminated and may also be reflectorised; or\n(b) where that system of street-lighting is not illuminated throughout the hours of darkness—\n(i) the sign must be illuminated by internal or external lighting for so long as that system is illuminated and must also be reflectorised; or\n(ii) the sign must be illuminated throughout the hours of darkness by internal or external lighting and may also be reflectorised.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to a sign where the road is subject to a speed limit of 20 mph.\n(3) The exception in sub-paragraph (2) does not apply to a sign provided for at item 2 or 5 of the Part 4 sign table mounted on a bridge or other structure and, consequently, sub-paragraph (1) applies to such a sign.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 6 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/2/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}