{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m1-motorway-junctions-39-to-42-variable-speed-limits-regulations-2015/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m1-motorway-junctions-39-to-42-variable-speed-limits-regulations-2015/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/408",
  "legislation_title": "The M1 Motorway (Junctions 39 to 42) (Variable Speed Limits) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m1-motorway-junctions-39-to-42-variable-speed-limits-regulations-2015",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations introduce variable speed limits to the M1 Motorway from junctions 39 to 42 and on associated slip roads.\nRegulation 3 provides for variable speed limits to have effect on the roads specified in the Schedule. Where variable speed limit signs are in operation a vehicle may not be driven at a speed above the maximum indicated by each speed limit sign passed by the vehicle until it passes a sign indicating that the national speed limit applies or the vehicle leaves the roads covered by the regulation. Where a speed limit changes less than ten seconds before a vehicle passes the sign and the sign had indicated a higher speed limit, the regulation allows the driver to proceed at a speed up to the maximum applicable before the change. Where the speed limit sign indicates a speed limit when it is passed by a vehicle but less than ten seconds previously it was either giving no indication of a speed limit or that the national speed limit applied, the sign is to be taken as giving no indication of a speed limit to the vehicle passing it.\nContravention of these Regulations is an offence under section 17(4) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/408/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:45:57.515906+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."
}