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Proportion and form of letters, numerals and other characters

Schedule 17 Parts 1 to 8

3.1

A new Schedule 17 replaces the previous Schedule 13 as follows:

Part 1 - 'transport medium' alphabet; for use on a sign, or parts of a sign, with a black, blue, brown, dark green, green or red background

Part 2 - 'transport heavy' alphabet; for use on a sign, or parts of a sign, with an orange, white or yellow background

Part 3 - 'motorway' alphabet; for route numbers on permanent motorway signs with a blue background

Part 4 - 'motorway' alphabet; for route numbers on temporary motorway signs with a yellow background

Part 5 - alphabet for use on variable message signs where the characters shown in Parts 1 - 4 cannot be used because of the method of construction or operation of the sign

Part 6 - alphabet for use in road markings where the character height is in the range 280 millimetres to 700 millimetres

Part 7 - alphabet for use in road markings where the character height is 1600 millimetres or where varied proportionally to a height of either 705 millimetres or 1035 millimetres in accordance with regulation 5(15)

Part 8 - alphabet for use in road markings where the character height is 2800 millimetres

Bilingual signs and use of Scottish Gaelic on directional signs

Schedule 17 Parts 9 and 10

3.2

A Scottish Gaelic alphabet is now provided for use in Scotland only, on certain directional signs prescribed by Schedule 12. The appropriate provisions are regulation 5(16), paragraph 4 in Part 3 of Schedule 12, paragraph 5 in Part 8 of Schedule 12, paragraph 2 in Part 25 of Schedule 12 and paragraph 3 in Part 27 of Schedule 12.

3.3

Place names may also be shown in Scottish Gaelic on boundary signs prescribed by Schedule 11 together with the following phrases preceding the place name:

• "Welcome to"
• "County of"
• "Welcome to the County of", or similar phrase

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