{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m1-motorway-junction-2-50-miles-per-hour-speed-limit-regulations-2020/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m1-motorway-junction-2-50-miles-per-hour-speed-limit-regulations-2020/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2020/1136",
  "legislation_title": "The M1 Motorway (Junction 2) (50 Miles Per Hour Speed Limit) Regulations 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m1-motorway-junction-2-50-miles-per-hour-speed-limit-regulations-2020",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“A1” means the road known by that name;\n“carriageway”, in relation to a motorway, and “motorway” have the same meaning as in the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982;\n“carriageway”, in relation to a road other than a motorway, has the same meaning as in section 329 of the Highways Act 1980;\n“M1” means the motorway known by that name; and\n“the specified roads” means-\n(a) that length of the M1 at junction 2 from the southbound carriageway of the M1 to the southbound carriageway of the A1 from a point 309 metres south-east of the centre of Five Ways footbridge to a point 279 metres north-west of the centre of Greenlands Lane footbridge; and\n(b) that length of the M1 at junction 2 from the northbound carriageway of the A1 to the northbound carriageway of the M1 from a point 278 metres north-west of the centre of Greenlands Lane footbridge to a point 181 metres south-east of the centre of Five Ways footbridge.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1163, relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1984/1479, 1992/1364, 2004/3258, 2018/222."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1980 c.66."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1136/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:24:17.449546+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}