Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions

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Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions is the primary legal framework in the United Kingdom that prescribes the design, placement, and use of official road traffic signs and markings.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf road traffic regulation
statutory instrument
subordinate legislation
appliesTo England
Scotland
Wales
bindingOn local authorities
strategic highway companies
contains general directions to traffic authorities
prescribed road markings
prescribed traffic signs
country United Kingdom
defines sign colours
sign dimensions
sign illumination requirements
sign symbols
doesNotApplyTo Northern Ireland
enforcedBy local highway authorities
traffic authorities
governs directional signs
informational signs
regulatory signs
road works signing
temporary traffic management signs
warning signs
implementedThrough traffic regulation orders
issuedBy Secretary of State for Transport
jurisdiction Great Britain
language English
legalBasis Road Traffic Act 1988
Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
purpose to ensure road safety through consistent signing
to give legal effect to traffic signs and markings
to standardise road traffic signs in Great Britain
regulates design of traffic signs
illumination of traffic signs
placement of traffic signs
road markings
road traffic signs
traffic signals
use of traffic signs
relatedTo Highway Code
Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions self-linksurface differs
surface form: Traffic Signs Manual
requiresComplianceFrom highway authorities
traffic sign designers
sector road transport
subject highway engineering
public safety
traffic law
typeOfLaw secondary legislation

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United Kingdom road network usesSignageStandard Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions
Worboys road sign system codifiedIn Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions
Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions relatedTo Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Traffic Signs Manual
A-roads signageStandard Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions
subject surface form: A-road
this entity surface form: Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions (GB)