{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/schedule-7/part-6/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-signs-regulations-and-general-directions-2016/schedule-7/part-6/paragraph-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": "schedule/7/part/6/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Clearways (diagram 1025.1)",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (3) and paragraph 4, the road marking provided for at item 9 of the Part 4 sign table conveys the prohibition that a person driving a vehicle must not cause it to stop within the clearway—\n(a) if the relevant upright sign placed in conjunction with the marking does not show a time period, at any time; or\n(b) if the relevant upright sign shows a time period, during that period.\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n(a) “clearway” means an area of carriageway bounded by the continuous and broken straight lines provided for at item 9;\n(b) “relevant upright sign” means an upright sign which includes a stopping prohibited symbol and indicates that stopping by vehicles other than buses or local buses is prohibited, or prohibited during the period indicated; and\n(c) a vehicle is taken to have stopped within a clearway if—\n(i) any point in the clearway is below the vehicle or its load (if any); and\n(ii) the vehicle is stationary.\n(3) The prohibition in sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to the driver of a bus who causes the bus to stop within the clearway for so long as may be necessary—\n(a) to maintain a published timetable for the service (provided, in the case of a clearway marked “BUS STOP”, that the bus is not stopped within the clearway for a period exceeding two minutes);\n(b) to enable passengers to board or alight from the bus; or\n(c) to enable the crew of the bus to be changed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 Pt. 6 para. 1 in force at 22.4.2016, see reg. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/362/schedule/7/part/6/paragraph/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."
}