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  EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This Note is not part of the Regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport.)

1. These Regulations re -enact with amendments the Traffic Signs (Speed Limit) Regulations, 1941. The main changes are:

2. Signs for indicating whether lengths of road are subject to a 30 m.p.h. speed limit by virtue of section 1 of the Road Traffic Act, 1934, are increased in size and a new sign shown in diagram 3 in the First Schedule for giving this indication is also prescribed.

3. The Secretary of State and the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation are given power to agree that the requirements of the Regulations as to illumination of the signs need not be complied with in the case of any particular sign. 



The Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (hereinafter referred to as the Minister") in exercise of his powers under subsection (7) of section 1 of the Road Traffic Act, 1934(a), as amended by section 4 of the Road Traffic Act, 1956(b) , and of all other powers him enabling in that behalf hereby directs as follows:

