Commentary on provisions of Act Section 40: Roads
Paragraph (c) of Section E1 (specific reservations: road transport) of Part 2 of Schedule 5 to the 1998 Act provides that the subject matter of the following provisions of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 ("the RTRA 1984") are reserved matters:-
section 17 (traffic regulation on special roads);
section 25 (pedestrian crossings);
Part V (traffic signs); and
Part VI (speed limits).
	Paragraph (d) of Section E1 provides the subject-matter of the Road Traffic Act 1988 and the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 are reserved matters.
	This section amends Section E1 as follows.
	It substitutes a new paragraph (c) which provides that the subject-matter of the following provisions of the RTRA 1984 will remain reserved:-
section 17 (traffic regulation on special roads) except so far as it relates to the speed of vehicles; and
section 87 (exemption of emergency vehicles from speed limits) so far as it relates to the training of the drivers of emergency vehicles.
	It excepts from the subject matter of Road Traffic Act 1988, the parking of vehicles on roads in Scotland.
	The subject matter of section 36 (offence of failing to comply with a traffic sign) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 is also excepted.
	It inserts an interpretative provision to the effect that the reference to section 87 of the RTRA 1984 is to be construed as if section 19 of the Road Safety Act 2006 were in force. Section 19, which has yet to be commenced, substitutes a new section 87 of the RTRA 1984.