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This Statutory Instrument has been made to correct an error in S.I. 1997/2400 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument

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1998 No. 901

ROAD TRAFFIC

The Pelican and Puffin Pedestrian Crossings General (Amendment) Directions 1998

Made

25th March 1998

Coming into force

1st April 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred by section 65(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby give the following Directions:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Directions may be cited as the Pelican and Puffin Pedestrian Crossings General (Amendment) Directions 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.

Amendment of the Pelican and Puffin Pedestrian Crossings General Directions 1997

2.  In direction 8(3) of the Pelican and Puffin Pedestrian Crossings General Directions 1997(2), after the word “grey,” there shall be inserted “black,”.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Helene Hayman

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

18th March 1998

Henry B. McLeish

Minister of State, Scottish office

20th March 1998

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Peter Hain

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office

25th March 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the General Directions)

These Directions amend direction 8(3) of the Pelican and Puffin Pedestrian Crossings General Directions 1997 so that, where vehicular light signals, pedestrian light signals, an indicator for pedestrians or a pedestrian demand unit at a crossing is mounted on a post specially provided for the purpose, the colour black is added to the colours available for that part of the post extending above ground level.

(1)

1984 c. 27. Section 65(1) was substituted by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22), Schedule 8, paragraph 48. For the meaning of “the Ministers” see section 142(1).

(2)

Part II of S.I. 1997/2400.

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