The Secretary of State and the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation (hereinafter referred to as "the Minister") acting jointly in exercise of their powers under sections 48 and 59 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930(a)[1], as read with the Transfer of Functions (Roads, Bridges and Ferries) Order, 1955(b)[2], section 35 of the Road Traffic Act, 1956(c)[3], and of all other powers them enabling in that behalf hereby make the following Regulations and give the following Directions:—
Part I
Traffic Signs Regulations
Section I
Preliminary
1. These Regulations may be cited as "The Traffic Signs Regulations, 1957".
2.—(1) The Traffic Signs (Size, Colour and Type ) Regulations, 1950(d)[4] (hereinafter in these Regulations referred to as "the Regulations of 1950") are hereby revoked, without prejudice, however, to the validity of anything done thereunder or to any liability incurred in respect of any act or omission before the coming into operation of these Regulations.
(2) Any traffic sign situate on or near any road immediately before the coming into operation of these Regulations, being a traffic sign shown in any diagram set out in Part I, Part II, or Part III of either the First Schedule or the Second Schedule to the Regulations of 1950 and then complying with the provisions relating thereto by virtue of those Regulations shall, subject as hereinafter provided in this Regulation, be treated as prescribed by these Regulations for so long as it continues to comply with the said provisions as if the same had not been revoked:—
Provided that the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall not apply—
(a) in the case of a sign shown in either of the diagrams Nos. 49 and 50 set out in the said Second Schedule,
(b) on and after the expiration of one year from the coming into operation of these Regulations in the case of a sign shown in diagram No. 74 in the said First Schedule unless the sign is illuminated in the same manner as that in which Regulations 18 and 19 of these Regulations provide for the illumination of the sign shown in diagram No. 204 in the First Schedule to these Regulations, or
(c) on and after the expiration of two years from the coming into operation of these Regulations in the case of a sign shown in diagram No. 71 in the First Schedule to the Regulations of 1950 or diagram No. 43 in the Second Schedule to the Regulations of 1950 unless the lettering, back ground and borders of the sign comply as to colour with such one of the signs shown in diagrams Nos. 316 and 320 in the First Schedule to these Regulations as is appropriate.
