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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984/schedule-6/part-I",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/27",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/6/part/I",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "Vehicles Fitted with Pneumatic Tyres on all Wheels",
  "text": "Table\n1\n2\n3\nItem No.\nClass of Vehicle\nMaximum speed (in miles per hour) while vehicle is being driven on:\n(a) Motorway\n(b) Dual carriageway road not being a motorway\n(c) Other road\n1.\nA passenger vehicle, motor caravan or dual-purpose vehicle not drawing a trailer being a vehicle with an unladen weight exceeding 3·05 tonnes or adapted to carry more than 8 passengers:\n(i) if not exceeding 12 metres in overall length\n70\n60\n50\n(ii) if exceeding 12 metres in overall length\n60\n60\n50\n2.\nAn invalid carriage\nnot applicable\n20\n20\n3.\nA passenger vehicle, motor caravan, car-derived van or dual-purpose vehicle drawing one trailer\n60\n60\n50\n4.\nA passenger vehicle, motor caravan, car-derived van or dual-purpose vehicle drawing more than one trailer\n40\n20\n20\n5.\n(1) A goods vehicle having a maximum laden weight not exceeding 7·5 tonnes and which is not—(a) an articulated vehicle, or(b) drawing a trailer, or(c) a car-derived van\n70\n60\n50\n(2) A goods vehicle which is—\n(a) (i) an articulated vehicle having a maximum laden weight not exceeding 7·5 tonnes, or (ii) a motor vehicle, other than a car-derived van, which is drawing one trailer where the aggregate maximum laden weight of the motor vehicle and the trailer does not exceed 7·5 tonnes\n60\n60\n50\n(b) (i) an articulated vehicle having a maximum laden weight exceeding 7·5 tonnes, (ii) a motor vehicle having a maximum laden weight exceeding 7·5 tonnes and not drawing a trailer, or (iii) a motor vehicle drawing one trailer where the aggregate maximum laden weight of the motor vehicle and the trailer exceeds 7·5 tonnes\n60\n50 60\n40 50\n(c) a motor vehicle, other than a car-derived van, drawing more than one trailer\n40\n20\n20\n6.\nA motor tractor (other than an industrial tractor), a light locomotive or a heavy locomotive—(a) if the provisions about springs and wings as specified in paragraph 3 of Part IV of this Schedule are complied with and the vehicle is not drawing a trailer, or if those provisions are complied with and the vehicle is drawing one trailer which also complies with those provisions\n40\n30\n30\n(b) in any other case\n20\n20\n20\n7.\nA works truck\n18\n18\n18\n8.\nAn industrial tractor\nnot applicable\n18\n18\n9.\nAn agricultural motor vehicle\n40\n40\n40",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Figure \"60\" in Sch. 6 Pt. 1 item 3 substituted by S.I. 1986/1175, reg. 2(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Figure \"60\" in Sch. 6 Pt. 1 item 5 substituted by S.I. 1986/1175, reg. 2(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Figure \"50\" in Sch. 6 Pt. 1 item 5 substituted (E.W.) (6.4.2015) by The Motor Vehicles (Variation of Speed Limits) (England and Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3552), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Figure \"40\" in Sch. 6 Pt. 1 item 5 substituted (E,W.) (6.4.2015) by The Motor Vehicles (Variation of Speed Limits) (England and Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3552), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Item 9 in Sch. 6 Pt. 1 added by S.I. 1986/1175, reg. 2(1)(c)"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/schedule/6/part/I",
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  "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."
}