The Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Made: 20th February 2008

Coming into operation: 16th May 2008

The Department for Regional Development[^f00001] makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 28(2) of the Road Traffic Regulation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997[^f00002] and now vested in it[^f00003]:

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as The Traffic Signs (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 and shall come into operation on 16th May 2008.

Amendments

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• (1) The Traffic Signs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997[^f00004] shall be amended as provided by paragraphs (2) to (5).

• (2) In regulation 11 (proportions and form of letters, numerals, symbols and other characters)—

• (a) in paragraph (1) for the words “(3) and (5)” there shall be substituted “(3), (5) and (9)”; and

• (b) after paragraph (8) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

(9) Letters and numerals used on a sign shown in diagram 2714 or 2715 shall have the proportions and form shown in Part I of Schedule 13 where those letters and numerals are white and the proportions and form shown in Part II of Schedule 13 where they are black.

• (3) In Part I of Schedule 7 (temporary and emergency directional signs) after diagram 2710 there shall be inserted the diagrams specified in the Schedule and the words specified in and under them.

• (4) In Schedule 16 (permitted variants)—

• (a) in item 6 in column (2) after the words “876” there shall be inserted “, 2713.1”;

• (b) in item 9 in column (2) after the words “782.2” there shall be inserted “, 2713.1”; and

• (c) in item 11 in column (2) after the words “820.1” there shall be inserted “, 2713.1”.

• (5) In Schedule 17 (illumination requirements)—

• (a) in item 1 in column (2) after the words “2710” there shall be inserted “, 2713.1”; and

• (b) after item 12 there shall be inserted the following items—

SCHEDULE

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Regional Development on 20th February 2008.

R. Sherman — A senior officer of the — Department for Regional Development

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Traffic Signs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997.

The Regulations prescribe four new signs shown in diagrams 2711 (direction to emergency exit for pedestrians from a tunnel), 2713.1 (distance ahead to emergency telephone in a parking place), 2714 and 2715 (signs for indicating an emergency telephone box) and make several consequential amendments.

These Regulations have been notified to the European Commission pursuant to Directive 98/34/EC of 22nd June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on Information Society Services (O.J. No. L204, 21.07.98, p. 37-48) as amended by Directive 98/48/EC of 20th July 1998 (O.J. No. L217, 05.08.98, p. 18-26). Copies of the Directives can be obtained from The Stationery Office Bookshop, 16 Arthur Street, Belfast, BT1 4GD.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(1)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1997/276 (N.I. 2)

[^f00003]: S.R. 1999 No. 481 Article 6(d) and Schedule 4 Part IV

[^f00004]: S.R. 1997 No. 386 relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2002 No. 143 and S.R. 2003 No. 214