Regulation 3 Variable speed limits

(1)

A person must not drive a vehicle on a section of any of the specified lengths of road to which a variable speed limit applies at a speed exceeding the applicable variable speed limit.

(2)

The section of the specified length of road to which a variable speed limit applies is the section of the road—

(a)

beginning immediately after a relevant speed limit sign indicating a maximum speed limit other than the national speed limit; and

(b)

ending immediately after—

(i)

a relevant speed limit sign indicating that another maximum speed limit applies; or

(ii)

traffic signs mounted on the same post bearing the words “Variable Speed Limit” and “Ends”.

(3)

The applicable variable speed limit is the maximum speed limit indicated by the relevant speed limit sign referred to in paragraph (2)(a)—

(a)

when the vehicle passed that sign; or

(b)

if higher, the maximum speed limit indicated by that sign ten seconds before the vehicle passed it.

(4)

For the purposes of this regulation the relevant speed limit sign is to be taken as not indicating any maximum speed limit if, ten seconds before the vehicle passed it, the sign had not indicated any maximum speed limit.