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Roads (Speed Limit) (No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997

S.R. 1997/206 · Made 7 April 1997 · Extends to Northern Ireland

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ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Made 7th April 1997

To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974

Coming into operation 28th May 1997

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 50(4)(a) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981f1 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1981/154 (N.I. 1); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “Department”

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Increase of speed limit
  3. Signature
  4. Schedule: Restricted roads on which the speed limit is increased from 30 mph to 40 mph
  5. 1Paragraph 1 Repealed
  6. 2Paragraph 2
  7. 3Paragraph 3
  8. 4Paragraph 4 Repealed
  9. 5Paragraph 5
  10. 6Paragraph 6
  11. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencementI1

This Order may be cited as the Roads (Speed Limit) (No. 4) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 28th May 1997.

2Increase of speed limitI1

The rate of speed fixed by Article 50(1) of the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 shall be increased from 30 miles per hour to 40 miles per hour in relation to the restricted roads specified in the Schedule.

Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

L.S.

J. Carlisle

Assistant Secretary

7th April 1997.

1F1

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2I1

Toome Road, Route B18, Ballymena, from a point approximately 130 metres south-west of its junction with Camphill Park, to its junction with Old Tullygarley Road.

3I1

Tullygarley Road, Route C47, Ballymena, from its junction with Old Tullygarley Road, to its junction with Toome Road, Route B18.

4F1

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5I1

Larne Road, Route A2, Whitehead, from a point approximately 100 metres north-west of its junction with Slaughterford Road, to a point approximately 870 metres south-east of that junction.

6I1

Rawbrae Road, Unclassified No. 14, Whitehead.

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order increases from 30 miles per hour to 40 miles per hour the speed limit on the restricted roads specified in the Schedule.