Clause 18 - Speed assessment equipment detection devices
Road Safety Bill [Lords]
6:15 pm
Nicholas Winterton (Macclesfield, Conservative)
With this it will be convenient to discuss the following amendments:
No. 58, in clause 18, page 21, line 37, leave out ‘detection’ and insert ‘interference’.
No. 59, in clause 18, page 22, line 6, leave out ‘detection’ and insert ‘interference’.
No. 60, in clause 18, page 22, line 23, leave out ‘detection’ and insert ‘interference’.
No. 61, in clause 18, page 22, line 33, leave out ‘detection’ and insert ‘interference’.
New clause 12—Amendment of Traffic Signs Regulation and General Directions 2002—
‘(1)The Traffic Signs Regulation and General Directions 2002 (S.I. 2002/3313) are amended as follows.
(2)In Regulation 4, after the definition of “excursion or tour”, insert—
“Fixed speed camera” means a camera of a type approved by the Secretary of State that is situated at a fixed site and that operates continuously or from time to time for the purpose of monitoring the speed of road vehicles and securing compliance with the speed limit in force at that site.”.
(3)After Regulation 58 there is inserted—
“Fixed speed cameras
59Every fixed speed camera shall—
(a)be painted bright yellow, and
(b)be clearly visible from the carriageway at which it is directed, and
(c)be adequately illuminated during the hours of darkness, and
(d)have affixed to it a clearly visible indication of the applicable speed limit.”.’.