8. Signs shown in diagram 5 in the First Schedule shall be erected in accordance with the provisions of the next succeeding paragraph along a length of road on which there are one or more street lamps and on which no speed limit is in force.
9. A sign mentioned in the last preceding paragraph shall be erected on each lamp-post along any length of road mentioned in that paragraph so as to be clearly visible to the drivers of motor vehicles using the road, but if any lamp is mounted otherwise than on a post or if any existing lamp-post is not available or cannot conveniently be used for the purpose of erecting the sign upon it such sign shall be erected on a post to be specially placed for the purpose by the side of the road as close to each lamp as is consistent with the visibility of the sign to the drivers of motor vehicles using the road:
Provided that where on such a length of road
(a) there is a lamp which is placed more than two hundred yards from the nearest other lamp on that road; or
(b) on one side of the road there are more than three lamps without there being any lamp on the other side of the road between the first and last of those lamps; or
(c) there are not more than three lamps which are placed two hundred yards or less apart;
two such signs facing in opposite directions shall be erected on each lamp post on which is mounted each of such lamps or on a post close to each such lamps, as the case may require.
10. Where a sign shown in any of the diagrams in the First Schedule or the Second Schedule is mounted on or attached to a post specially provided for that purpose, such post shall be painted in alternate black and white bands, each band being not less than eleven inches nor more than thirteen inches in width.
11. Nothing in these Directions shall be taken to limit the power of the Secretary of State by any special Direction to dispense with, add to or modify any of the requirements of these Directions in their application to any particular case.
Dated this 22nd day of February , 1957 .
John S. Maclay,
One of Her Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State.
Edinburgh, 1.
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 Secretary of State 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 Scotland 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.
