Article 12 Speed limitsI1
England, Wales and Scotland
From the date determined in accordance with article 10(1) and (2), the Schedule to the M1 Motorway (Junctions 6A to 10) (Variable Speed Limits) Regulations 2011f1 is amended in accordance with Part 1 of Schedule 4 (speed limits).
Upon completion of the authorised development—
paragraph 41 of the Schedule to the County of Bedfordshire (Principal Roads) (De-restriction) Order 1988 is revoked;
the Borough of Luton (Speed Limits) Order 2011 is varied as follows—
in Schedule 3, omit “London Road” from the “road” column, and from the corresponding entry in the “length subject to speed limit” column, omit “From a point 10 metres south-east of the southern boundary of No. 151 London Road to a point 8 metres north of the give-way line at Kidney Wood Roundabout”; and
in Schedule 4, replace “New Airport Way” with “A1081 Airport Way (previously described as New Airport Way)”, and replace the corresponding entry in the “length subject to speed limit” column with “The dual carriageway length from a point immediately below the centre of the Capability Green over-bridge to a point 150 metres south-west of the centre point on Park Street bridge together with the Capability Green eastbound merge slip road from the end of the merge nosing at its junction with the A1081 Airport Way, south-westwards for a distance of 90 metres and the Capability Green westbound diverge slip road from the start of the diverge nosing at its junction with the A1081 Airport Way to its junction with the Capability Green southern roundabout, a distance of 410 metres”;
no person is to drive any motor vehicle at a speed exceeding 40 miles per hour in the lengths of roads identified in Part 2 of Schedule 4 to this Order; and
no person is to drive a motor vehicle at a speed exceeding 50 miles per hour in the lengths of roads identified in Part 3 of Schedule 4 to this Order.
No speed limit imposed by this Order applies to vehicles falling within regulation 3(4) of the Road Traffic Exemptions (Special Forces) (Variation and Amendment) Regulations 2011f2 when used in accordance with regulation 3(5) of those regulations.
The speed limits imposed by this article may be varied or revoked by any enactment which provides for the variation or revocation of such matters.
Annotations
Commencement
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Art. 12 in force at 20.11.2013, see art. 1
Footnotes
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