Road Traffic Act · 2026 Revised Edition · Part · Driving and Other Offences and General Conditions Relating to Use of Motor Vehicles on Road
38. Traffic signs
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The Director or any person authorised by him may cause or permit traffic signs to be placed on or near any road.
Director
“Director” means the Director of Land Transport and includes any Deputy Director appointed under section 3(2);
Traffic signs shall be of such size, colour and type as may be prescribed, and after such signs have been prescribed, no traffic sign shall be placed on or near any road except under and in accordance with the provisions of this section:
traffic
“traffic” includes vehicles of every description, pedestrians, processions, and bodies of troops and all animals being ridden, driven or led;
Provided that any traffic sign erected or displayed before such signs had been prescribed, if approved (whether before or after the 1st day of
December 1957) by the Director or any person authorised by him, is deemed for the purposes of section 39(1) to be of the prescribed size, colour and type and to have been lawfully placed on or near any road:
person
“person” shall have the meaning assigned to it by the Interpretation and General Clauses Act;
Provided further that any traffic sign so erected or displayed is deemed to have been approved by the Director or some person authorised by him unless the contrary is proved.
The Director or any person authorised by him may at any time, by notice in writing, require the owner or occupier of any land on which there is any traffic sign which was placed there without authority, or any object which so closely resembles a traffic sign that it might reasonably be taken to be such a sign, to remove it, and, if any person fails to comply with such notice, the Director or any person authorised by him may effect the removal, doing as little damage as may be, and may recover from the owner or occupier thereof the expense incurred thereby as if the same were a civil debt due to the Government.
owner
“owner” means the person in whose name a motor vehicle is registered by a licensing officer: Provided that in the case of a vehicle which is the subject of a hire-purchase agreement, the term means the person in possession of the vehicle under that agreement;
The Director and any person authorised by him may enter upon any land and exercise such other powers as may be necessary for the purpose of the exercise and performance of the powers and duties conferred and imposed under this section.
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road
“road” means any highway and any other road to which the public has access, and includes bridges over which a road passes;
In this Part, “traffic sign” includes all signals, warnings, signposts, direction posts, signs or other devices for the guidance or direction of persons using roads.
Terms defined in s 2
Director
Defined · s 2“Director” means the Director of Land Transport and includes any Deputy Director appointed under section 3(2);
owner
Defined · s 2“owner” means the person in whose name a motor vehicle is registered by a licensing officer: Provided that in the case of a vehicle which is the subject of a hire-purchase agreement, the term means the person in possession of the vehicle under that agreement;
person
Defined · s 2“person” shall have the meaning assigned to it by the Interpretation and General Clauses Act;
road
Defined · s 2“road” means any highway and any other road to which the public has access, and includes bridges over which a road passes;
traffic
Defined · s 2“traffic” includes vehicles of every description, pedestrians, processions, and bodies of troops and all animals being ridden, driven or led;
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