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Statutory Instruments
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 1984(1)and 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. 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. In these Regulations "motorway" has the meaning given in regulation 3(1) of the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982(2).
3. 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(3); and
(b)that sign is directed at traffic intending to proceed along that carriageway.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Steven Norris
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Transport
17th August 1995
Regulation 3
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).
(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.
1984 c. 27. Section 17 was amended by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22) Schedule 8, paragraph 28 and by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) Schedule 4, paragraph 25.
Part I of S.I. 1994/1519.
