Mounting of signs.
Road marks.
Neglect of traffic directions.
Prohibition of unauthor. ized signs.
(4) A traffic sign placed on or near a road shall be deemed to be a prescribed traffic sign and to have been lawfully so placed unless the contrary is proved, and the fact that a traffic sign differs slightly in size. colour or type from a prescribed traffic sign shall not prevent such traffic sign from being a prescribed traffic sign so long as the general appearance of the sign is not thereby materially impaired,
6. Every sign shown in any of the diagrams in the Schedule shall, wherever practicable, be mounted on or attached to-
(a) a post specially provided for the purpose and every post shall be painted in alternate black and white horizontal bands, each band being not less than eleven inches nor more than thirteen inches in width; or
(b) a lamp post or other standard which in either case may be painted with one or more white horizontal bands each band being not less than eleven inches nor more than thirteen inches in width.
7.
(1) The Authority may cause or permit lines or words to be placed on any road for indicating-
(a) the places where traffic must stop or reduce speed; (b) the direction in which traffic must proceed;
(c) the course to be taken by vehicles or pedestrians at road
junctions, crossings and curves;
(d) the proximity and situation of street refuges and tram islands; (e) the division of the carriage-way into traffic lanes:
() the limits of any part of the carriage-way set aside for the
parking or waiting of motor vehicles; and
(g) generally the movement of traffic on roads.
(2) Any such lines shall be yellow or white or partly yellow and partly white and may be painted on the road or made of any suitable material embedded on the road or fixed to the surface of the road.
(3) The width of lines on a road shall be not less than four inches.
8. Any person who fails to conform with the indication given by a prescribed traffic sign or a red or amber signal when shown by traffic lights used in accordance with regulation 11 or regulation 13 shall be guilty of an offence.
2. (1) Any person who causes or permits to be placed on or near any road or building any prescribed traffic sign, any traffic sign or any sign which is of such similarity to a prescribed traffic sign or to
a traffic sign that any person approaching it might reasonably mistake
it for a prescribed traffic sign or for a traffic sign, except-
(a) in accordance with a permit issued under regulation 3; or
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(b) to comply with the provisions of any enactment, shall be guilty
of an offence.
(2) The Authority may by notice in writing require any person who has placed or caused to be placed any such sign to remove such sign and, if such person fails to comply with such notice, the Authority may cause the sign to be removed and thereupon the sign and every part thereof and every attachment thereto shall be forfeited to the Crown and the Authority may recover, from such person as u civil debt, the cost of such removal and of any reinstatement of the road necessitated by such removal.
10. The Authority may by notice in writing require the owner or occupier of any land, adjoining a road, on which there is any object or device, whether fixed or portable, for the guidance or direction of persons using the road to remove such object or device and if any person fails to comply with such notice, the Authority may cause the object or device to be removed, and thereupon the object or device shall be forfeited to the Crown and the Authority may recover, from the person so in default as a civil debt, the cost of such removal and of any reinstatement of the road necessitated by such removal.
Removal of
is udjolning the road.
11. Traffic lights may be used for the control of vehicular traffic Traffic lights. subject to the following provisions—
(a) three lights shall be used facing the stream of traffic which the signal is intended to control, one red, one amber and one green:
(b) the lamps showing the coloured lights aforesaid shall be arranged vertically, the lamp showing a red light being the uppermost and that showing the green light the lowermost; (c) each lamp shall be separately illuminated and the effective diameter of the lens thereof shall not be less than eight inches, por more than eight and a quarter inches;
(d) the height of the centre of the green lens from the carriage- way shall be seven feet six inches, provided that where desir- able owing to road gradients this height may be increased to not more than ten feet:
(e) the centres of the lenses shall not be more than fourteen inches
apart;
(f) the head of the signal enclosing the lamps and the post, if any, on which it is supported shall be painted black and white in alternate horizontal bands;
(g) the sequence of the lights shown for the purpose of controlling
vehicular traffic shall be as follows-
() red: