Road Humps (Scotland) Regulations 1998
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1998/1448 |
| Year | 1998 |
1998 No. 1448 (S.74)
ROADS AND BRIDGES, SCOTLAND
The Road Humps (Scotland) Regulations 1998
Made 7th June 1998
Laid before Parliament 25th June 1998
Coming into force 16th July 1998
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 37(1)(b), 38(1) and 143(1)(a) and (b) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 19841and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and having consulted such representative organisations as he thought fit in accordance with sections 37(6) and 38(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and revocation
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Humps (Scotland) Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 16th July 1998.
(2) The Road Humps (Scotland) Regulations 19902are hereby revoked.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In these Regulations–
“the Act” means the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;
“fire authority” means the council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 19943or, where the area of the fire authority forms part of a combined area for fire-fighting purposes, the joint board for fire services for that combined area;
“traffic sign” has the same meaning as in section 64 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 19844;
“the Traffic Signs Regulations” means the Traffic Signs Regulations 19945.
(2) For the purposes of these Regulations, measurements between a road hump and any other point shall, as respects that road hump, be taken to or from its edge nearest to the other point.
(3) A reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations.
Consultation on road hump proposals
3. Where a roads authority propose to construct a road hump under section 36 of the Act, in addition to consulting the chief officer of police in accordance with section 37(1) of the Act, they shall consult–
(a) the council, constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994, in whose area the road is situated, in the case of the roads authority concerned being the Secretary of State;
(b) the fire authority in whose area the road is situated;
(c) the Scottish Ambulance Service NHS Trust6;
(d) such persons or organisations representing persons who use the road or who are otherwise likely to be affected by the road hump, as the roads authority think fit.
Roads on which road humps may be constructed
4.—(1) Subject to regulation 7, no road hump shall be constructed on a road unless the requirements specified in paragraph (2) below are satisfied.
(2) The requirements referred to in paragraph (1) above are that on the road there is either–
(a)
(a) a system of carriageway lighting furnished by at least three lamps lit by electricity and placed so that not more than 38 metres separate each lamp from the one next to it; or
(b)
(b) a system of carriageway lighting complying with the British Standard for Road Lighting published by the British Standards Institution under number BS5489 or with an equivalent standard or code of practice published by a national standards body or equivalent body of a member state of the European Community before these Regulations are made; or
(c)
(c) lighting specially provided for the road hump.
Dimensions and location of road humps
5.—(1) Subject to regulation 7, no road hump shall be constructed or maintained on a road–
(a)
(a) if it exceeds 100 millimetres at its highest...
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