Article 16 Speed limits

Upon the opening of the length of highway specified Part 1 of Schedule 8 (speed limits) no person is to drive any motor vehicle at a speed exceeding 30 miles per hour in the lengths of road identified in column (2) of that Part of that Schedule.

Upon the opening of the length of highway specified in Part 2 of Schedule 8 no person is to drive any motor vehicle at a speed exceeding 40 miles per hour in the lengths of road identified in column 2 of that Part of that Schedule.

Upon the opening of the length of highway specified in Part 3 of Schedule 8 no person is to drive any motor vehicle at a speed exceeding 50 miles per hour in the lengths of road identified in column (2) of that Part of that Schedule.

Upon the opening of the length of highway specified in Schedule 8 no person is to drive any motor vehicle at a speed exceeding 60 miles per hour in the lengths of road identified in column (2) of that Part of that Schedule.

Subject to the provisions of this article and the consent of the relevant traffic authority, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld but which may be subject to reasonable conditions, the undertaker may, in so far as may be expedient or necessary for the purposes of or in connection with the construction, operation or maintenance of the authorised development, impose a temporary speed limit either at all times or at times, on days or during such periods and on such roads as may be specified by the undertaker.

The undertaker must not exercise the powers in paragraph (5) unless it has given not less than 4 weeks' notice in writing of its intention so to do to the chief officer of police and to the relevant traffic authority.

The speed limits imposed by this Order are deemed to have been imposed by an order under the 1984 Act and—

as any other speed limit imposed by an order under that Act.

No speed limit imposed by this Order applies to vehicles falling within regulation 3(4) (regulations in relation to orders and notices under the 1984 Act) of the Road Traffic Exemptions (Special Forces) (Variation and Amendment) Regulations 2011 M1 when used in accordance with regulation 3(5) of those Regulations.