Roads (Speed Limit) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1996 No. 33

ROAD TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES

Roads (Speed Limit) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Made

8th February 1996

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

Coming into operation

21st March 1996

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 1981(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Roads (Speed Limit) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 21st March 1996.

(2) In this Order “the 1981 Order” means the Road Traffic (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.

Increase of speed limit

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

Reduction of speed limit

3.  In relation to the length of Comber Road, Route A21, Newtownards, from a point approximately 457 metres south of Court Street/South Street junction, to a point approximately 657 metres south of that junction, the rate of speed fixed by Article 50(1) of the 1981 Order shall be reduced from 40 miles per hour to 30 miles per hour.

4.  The rate of speed fixed by Article 50(1) of the 1981 Order shall be reduced from 30 miles per hour to 20 miles per hour in relation to the restricted roads specified in Schedule 2.

Revocation

5.  Item 3 of Schedule 1 to the Roads (Speed Limit) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1988(2) is hereby revoked.

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

L.S.

E. J. Galway

Assistant Secretary

8th February 1996.

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1 Restricted roads on which the speed limit is increased from 30 mph to 40 mph

1.  Ardnabannon Road, Route A25, Annsborough, Castlewellan, from its junction with Ballylough Road, Route B175, to a point approximately 225 metres north-east of that junction.

2.  Mill Hill, Route A25, Castlewellan, from its junction with Ballylough Road, Route B175, to a point approximately 1,345 metres south-west of that junction.

3.  Bangor Road, Route A21, Newtownards, from a point approximately 35 metres north of its junction with Rosevale Avenue, to a point approximately 690 metres north of its junction with North Road.

4.  Comber Road, Route A21, Newtownards, from a point approximately 657 metres south of Court Street/ South Street junction, to a point approximately 2,031 metres south of that junction.

5.  Crawfordsburn Road, Route C251, Newtownards, from a point approximately 530 metres north of its junction with Mountain Road, to a point approximately 1,528 metres north of that junction.

Article 4

SCHEDULE 2 Restricted roads on which the speed limit is reduced from 30 mph to 20 mph

1.  Carlisle Avenue, Ballynahinch.

2.  Carlisle Park, Ballynahinch.

3.  Craigs Road, Ballynahinch.

4.  Glenlough, Ballynahinch.

5.  Glenlough Park, Ballynahinch.

6.  Hillfoot Crescent, Ballynahinch.

7.  Hillhead Crescent, Ballynahinch.

8.  Hilltop, Ballynahinch.

9.  Knowes Crescent, Ballynahinch.

10.  Loughside Drive, Ballynahinch.

11.  Meadowvale, Ballynahinch.

12.  Millbrook Drive, Ballynahinch.

13.  Piney Hill, Ballynahinch.

14.  Tudor Oaks, Ballynahinch.

15.  Windmill Avenue, Ballynahinch.

16.  Windmill Gardens, Ballynahinch.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order:

(a) increases from 30 miles per hour to 40 miles per hour the speed limit on the restricted roads specified in Schedule 1 (Article 2);

(b) reduces from 40 miles per hour to 30 miles per hour the speed limit on the restricted road specified in Article 3;

(c) reduces from 30 miles per hour to 20 miles per hour the speed limit on the restricted roads specified in Schedule 2 (Article 4); and

(d) revokes the provision described in Article 5, which is spent.

(1)

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

(2)

S. R. 1988 No. 323