# The M4 Motorway (Severn Bridge) (Speed Limit) Regulations 1995

S.I. 1995/2168 · made 17 August 1995

These Regulations impose a 40 miles per hour speed limit on traffic using the motorway carried by the Severn Bridge, whenever traffic signs indicating such a limit are displayed.

Made under: Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (Section 17)

## Introductory text

ROAD TRAFFIC
SPECIAL ROADS
Made 17th August 1995
Laid before Parliament 30th August 1995
Coming into force 1st October 1995
The Secretary of State for Transport, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17(2) and (3) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation with representative organisations in accordance with section 134(2) of that Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

## 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the M4 Motorway (Severn Bridge) (Speed Limit) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 1st October 1995.

## 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations “motorway” has the meaning given in regulation 3(1) of the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982.

## 3 Speed limit

No person shall drive a motor vehicle at a speed exceeding 40 miles per hour on a carriageway of the length of motorway specified in the Schedule to these Regulations at any time when—
(a) there is placed at the beginning of that carriageway a traffic sign of the size, colour and type shown in the diagram numbered 670 in Schedule 2 to the Traffic Signs Regulations 1994; and
(b) that sign is directed at traffic intending to proceed along that carriageway.

## Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Steven Norris
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
17th August 1995

## LENGTH OF MOTORWAY SUBJECT TO A SPEED LIMIT

The M4 Motorway at the Severn Bridge in the counties of Gwent and Avon between a point 13 metres west of the Wye Bridge abutment and a point 58 metres east of the Aust Viaduct abutment (a distance measured along the length of the motorway of approximately 3064 metres).

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations impose a 40 miles per hour speed limit on traffic using the motorway carried by the Severn Bridge, whenever traffic signs indicating such a limit are displayed.

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