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 EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

These Directions are general directions by the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation with respect to the erection of traffic signs prescribed by the Traffic Signs ( 30 m.p.h. Speed Limit) Regulations, 1957 (S.I. 1957/274) which it is the duty of local authorities in England and Wales to erect in their areas for the purpose of securing that guidance is given to drivers of motor vehicles as to whether or not a thirty miles per hour speed limit applies on a length of road.

 

In exercise of the powers conferred on me by 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 as read with the Transfer of Functions (Roads, Bridges and Ferries) Order, 1955(c) , and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I hereby direct as follows:—

