{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m6-motorway-junctions-21a-to-26-variable-speed-limits-regulations-2024/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m6-motorway-junctions-21a-to-26-variable-speed-limits-regulations-2024/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2024/841",
  "legislation_title": "The M6 Motorway (Junctions 21a to 26) (Variable Speed Limits) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m6-motorway-junctions-21a-to-26-variable-speed-limits-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Variable speed limits",
  "text": "(1) No person shall drive a vehicle on a section of a road which is subject to a variable speed limit at a speed exceeding that indicated by a speed limit sign.\n(2) A section of a road is subject to a variable speed limit in relation to a vehicle being driven on it if—\n(a) the road is specified in the Schedule;\n(b) the vehicle has passed a speed limit sign;\n(c) the vehicle has not subsequently passed—\n(i) another speed limit sign indicating a different speed limit; or\n(ii) a traffic sign which indicates that the national speed limit is in force; and\n(d) no speed restriction is in force by virtue of—\n(i) an order or notice under section 14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984; or\n(ii) a traffic sign placed by a traffic officer pursuant to section 7 of the Traffic Management Act 2004.\n(3) In relation to a vehicle, the speed limit indicated by a speed limit sign is the highest of—\n(a) the speed shown at the time the vehicle passes the sign; or\n(b) the speed shown by the sign ten seconds before the vehicle passed the sign (if different).\n(4) In relation to a vehicle, a speed limit sign is to be taken as not indicating any speed limit if, ten seconds before the vehicle passed it, the sign showed no speed limit or was a traffic sign which indicates that the national speed limit is in force.\n(5) In this regulation—\n“the 2016 Regulations and Directions” means the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016;\n“national speed limit” has the meaning given by Schedule 1 to the 2016 Regulations and Directions;\n“a traffic sign which indicates that the national speed limit is in force” in relation to a vehicle means a traffic sign of the type shown in diagram 671 in Part 2 of Schedule 10 to the 2016 Regulations and Directions which is—\n(a) placed on or near a road; and\n(b) directed at traffic on the carriageway on which the vehicle is being driven;\n“road” includes the adjacent hard shoulder and verge, as those terms are defined in the 1982 Regulations; and\n“speed limit sign” in relation to a vehicle means a traffic sign of the type shown in diagram 670 in Part 2 of Schedule 10 to the 2016 Regulations and Directions which is—\n(a) placed on or near a road; and\n(b) directed at traffic on the carriageway on which the vehicle is being driven.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 14 was substituted by the Road Traffic (Temporary Restrictions) Act 1991 (c. 26), section 1(1) and Schedule 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2004 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2016/362, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/841/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:27:32.276399+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."
}