Notes

1. Section 139(4) of the Highways Act, 1980 (as amended) requires the owner of a builders' skip which has been deposited on the highway to secure that:
   1. the skip is properly lighted during the hours of darkness and, by the requirements of the Builders Skips (Markings) Regulations 1984 (5.1 1984 No.1933) each end of a builder's skip is to be marked as specified in Schedules 1 & 2 when any part of such skip is placed on any part of a highway except a footway or verge; Every marking shall be clean and efficient and shall be clearly marked and visible for a reasonable distance to persons using the highway on which the skip is placed.
   2. that the skip is clearly and indelibly marked with the owner's name and with his telephone number or address.
   3. that the skip is removed as soon as practicable after it has been filled.
   4. that each of the conditions subject to which that permission was granted is complied with.
2. Section 139(10) of the Highways Act 1980 provided that nothing in the Section shall be taken authorising the creation of a nuisance or of a danger to users of the high- way or as imposing on a highway authority whom a permission has been granted under the Section any liability or any injury, damage or loss resulting from the presence on a highway of the skip to which the permission relates.
3. Section 140 of the Highways Act 1980 empowers the highway authority or a police officer to require removal or repositioning or to remove or reposition a builder's skip deposited on the highway, even though it was deposited in accordance with the highway authority's permission, to recover from owner the cost of such removal or re- positioning and to dispose of a skip which is not collected by owner. Failure to comply with a request to remove or reposition a skip under the section may result in a fine not exceeding £400. N.B. In case of doubt you should refer to the Act and regulations mentioned.

4. Builders' Skips (Markings) Regulations 1984 (No.1933)
   The Builders' Skips (Markings) Regulations 1984 (5.1 1984 No.1933)
   Dated December 11th 1984 made by the Secretary of State for Transport under the Highways Act, 1980 5.139(4)
   

General Note

By these regulations the power to require builders' skips to be marked in a prescribed manner is excised.

They require each end of every builders' skip to be marked as specified in Scheds. 1 and 2 when any part of such skip is placed on any part of a highway except a footway or verge (Reg.3).

Every marking required by these regulations shall be clean and efficient (except when fitted to a door which is required to be open for the purpose of loading or unloading the skip) and shall be clearly visible for reasonable distance to persons using the highway on which the skip is placed (Reg.4).

Copies of the British Standard mentioned in para.2 of Sched.2 may be obtained from any sales outlets operated by the British Standards Institution, or by post from the Institution at Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, MK14 6LE.

1. These regulations shall come into operation on 21st January 1985, and may be cited as the Builders' Skips (Markings) Regulations 1984.
2. 1. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a Regulation or a Schedule followed by a number is a reference to the Regulation or Schedule bearing that number in these regulations.
   2. In these regulations a reference to an end of a builders' skip shall, in a case where the skip is placed on a highway sideways,be construed as a reference to a side of the skip.
3. On and after 1st January 1986 each end of every builders' skip any part of which is placed on any part of a highway except a footway or a verge shall be marked with a marking with complies with—
   
   1. the specifications about design set out in the diagrams and notes in Schedule 1, and
   2. the requirements specified in Schedule 2.
4. 1. Save as provided in paragraph (2) below, the whole of every marking with which a builders' skip is required by these regulations to be marked shall be-
      1. clean and efficient, and
      2. clearly visible for a reasonable distance to persons using the highway on which the skip is placed.
   2. The requirement specified in paragraph (1)(b) above does not apply in respect of a marking, or part of a marking, on any door of a builder's skip whilst that door is required to be open for the purpose of loading and unloading the skip.

   3. Regulation 3

      
      

      Notes:

      1. The width of each half of the marking shall be not less than 140 millimetres nor more than 280 millimetres,
      2. The length of each half of the markings shall be not less than 350 millimetres nor more than 700 millimetres.
      3. The angle of each stripe shall be not less than 40 degrees to the vertical nor more than 50 degrees to the vertical.
      4. Each half of the marking shall have a minimum area of 980 square centimetres.
      5. The breadth of each stripe shall be not less than 133 millimetres nor more than 147 millimetres.

Schedule 2

Requirements as to markings

1. The marking specified in Schedule 1 shall consist of two plates of equal size and the same shape as one another.
2. Each such plate shall comply with the requirements specified in the British Standards Specification for Rear Marking Plates for Vehicles issued by the British Standards Institution and published on 1st April 1970 under number BS AU 152:1970 and shall be marked as provided in paragraph 5 of that Standard,
3. The two plates comprising the marking shall be securely attached to the end of the builder's skip in such a manner that-
   1. each plate is as near to an outer edge of the skip as the construction of the skip allows, so, however, that no part of any plate projects beyond the outer edge of the end of the skip;
   2. the innermost edge of each plate is parallel to and the same distance from the vertical plane passing through the longitudinal axis of the skip;
   3. the upper edge of each plate is parallel to and the same distance from the upper edge of the end of the skip;
   4. no part of either plate is attached to-
      1. any lid, or
      2. Op any door except in case where a door is the only possible place to which the plate can possibly or conveniently be fixed; and
   5. the upper edge of each plate is-
      1. not more than 1,5 metres from the ground, and
      2. not lower than the upper edge of the skip save in so far as this may be necessary on account of the construction of the skip, the provisions of Regulation 4 or the provisions of sub-paragraph (i) above.
   6. The stippled areas in the diagram in Schedule 1 shall be of red fluorescent material, and the unstippled areas in that diagram shall be of yellow reflex material.