33. Where the lamp mentioned in Regulation 30 of the Regulations is mounted on a post specially provided for the purpose—
(1) if that post is a post placed on a street refuge or central reservation on a zebra crossing and yellow globes also are attached to, or mounted on that post, then the provisions of paragraph 2(4) of Part II or schedule 2 to the 'Zebra' Pedestrian Crossings Regulation 1971(a)([1] shall have effect and apply to the colouring of that post in so far as it extends above ground level up to the point where the yellow lobes are mounted or attached and beyond that point any remaining part of the post shall be coloured in accordance with sub paragraph (2) or this paragraph; and
(2) if that post is a post so placed as aforesaid but yellow globes are not also attached to, or mounted on it or it the post is placed elsewhere than on a zebra crossing, then that post shall be coloured grey but with two while bands, each band being not less than 275 nor more than 335 millimetres in depth, being so arranged that at least 275 but not more than 335 millimetres extend between the nearest edges of the two bands, and the upper edge of the uppermost band being at east 275 but not more than 335 millimetres below the lowest pan of the lamp:
Provided that where such a post is constructed of concrete it shall not be coloured in either manner as aforesaid but shall remain in its natural colour.
In this paragraph "zebra crossing” has the same meaning as in the said Regulations of 1971 and "yellow globes" means globes in relation to which the provisions of Part II of Schedule 2 to the said Regulations of 1971 are complied with.
34.—(1) Light signals such as are prescribed in Regulations 31 to 33, 35, 35, 37(2), 33 and 39 of the Regulations may be placed on or near a road only if the following conditions are satisfied, that is to say—
(a) the said signals are so placed that they race the stream of traffic to which they are intended to convey respectively the warning, information, requirements, restrictions or prohibitions prescribed by the Regulations;
(a) the apparatus (including the content or all instructions stored in, or executable by it) used in connection with the said signals is of a type which has been approved in writing by or on behalf or the secretary of State; and
(c) if the light signals are light signals prescribed by Regulation 31(4) or the Regulations and are to be erected at or near in level crossing (where a road is crossed by a railway) otherwise than in issuance of an Order made by the Secretary of State under section 66 of the British Transport Commission Act, 1957[2] (which empowers the Secretary of State to authorise special arrangements at public level crossings) or of an order so made under section 124 of the Transport Act, l968[3] (British Railways Board's obligations at level crossings with loads other than public carriage roads), the site for, and the number and disposition of, those signals shall first have been approved in writing by or on behalf of the secretary of State after consideration of such plans for the site and such other information as he may require for the purposes or his function in this condition.
