Part II
General Directions
1. These Directions may be cited as the Traffic Signs (Welsh and English Language Provisions) General directions 1985 and shall come into operation on 11th June 1985.
2.—(1) References in these directions to "Schedule 1"shall be construed as references to Schedule 1 to these Regulations and Directions.
(2) In these directions "The Main Regulations" means the Traffic Signs Regulations 1981 as amended; "the Main Directions" means means the Traffic General Regulations 1981[1] as ammended [2] and a reference in Schedule 1 to these Regulations and Directions to "Main Directions" or to "Prif Gyfarwyddiadau" is similarly a reference to the Traffic Signs and General Directions 1981 as amended.
(3) References in these directions to a sign shown in a diagram in schedule 1 shall include references to a variant of the sign which is specified in Schedule 1 as being a permitted variant.
(4) Nothing in these Directions shall have effect so as to authorise any person not authorised to do so to place on or near a road any object or device for warning traffic of a temporary obstruction.
3. The Main Direction shall apply to a sign shown in a diagram in Schedule 1 with the prefix "W" followed by a diagram number as if it were a sign bearing the equivalent diagram number without the prefix "W" in Schedule 1 to the Main Regulations and the reference in Direction 12 of the Main Directions to signs which are specified beneath the Diagrams showing the plates referred to in Direction 12 shall be construed as references to such signs beneath the corresponding diagrams in Schedule 1. Provided that:—
(a) notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Direction 11(3) of the Main Directions the plates shown in diagrams W552, W554 and W554.1 in Schedule 1 shall be used only in combination with the sign shown in diagram 562 of Schedule 1 to the Main Regulations; and
