CISR14300 - The Scheme: construction operations: sign writing and signboards

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FA04/S74 (3)(g) excludes from the Construction Industry Scheme

  • ‘sign-writing and erecting, installing and repairing signboards and advertisements’.

The exclusion applies to the installation of static display signboards affixed to buildings and other structures and the erection of signboards, unless the erection of the sign forms part of the land. The exclusion does not apply to signs having electrical and mechanical features where the installation requires an electrical connections.

Excluded from CIS

  • Wooden and plastic signboards affixed to buildings and other structures
  • sign-writing carried out on shop fronts, shop windows and other locations
  • installation and repair of advertising hoardings
  • repair of electrical and electro-mechanical signs and advertisements.
  • images projected onto a building or structure from stand alone equipment
  • in isolation, the hire of temporary free standing traffic lights (Isolation – ‘something separate and not connected to other things’, the use of temporary traffic management is used whilst construction work is being undertaken, it isn’t permanent, it is short term and won’t be a regular feature, i.e., once the section of road has been completed, the traffic management option chosen will be negated.)
  • signs with support posts which are simply driven into the ground

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Within CIS

  • Installation of electrical (including neon) signs
  • installation of electro-mechanical signs and advertisements
  • construction of bus shelters and other street furniture carrying advertising boards
  • permanent traffic lights and road signs
  • application of road markings.