The M61 Motorway (Kearsley Spur) (Speed Limit) Regulations 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 2359

ROAD TRAFFIC

The M61 Motorway (Kearsley Spur) (Speed Limit) Regulations 1999

Made

19th August 1999

Laid before Parliament

31st August 1999

Coming into force

22nd September 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 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:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the M61 Motorway (Kearsley Spur) (Speed Limit) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 22nd September 1999.

(2) In these Regulations–

(a) “the Kearsley Spur” means the Kearsley Spur of the M61 Motorway at Kearsley in Greater Manchester; and

(b) “the northbound exit slip road” means the northbound exit slip road linking the northbound carriageway of the Kearsley Spur with the Kearsley roundabout.

Imposition of speed limit

2.—(1) No person shall drive any motor vehicle at a speed exceeding 50 miles per hour on a restricted carriageway.

(2) Each of the following is a restricted carriageway–

(a) the northbound carriageway of the Kearsley Spur between its junction with the northbound exit slip road and its junction with the A666 (Bolton Road);

(b) the northbound exit slip road between its junction with the northbound carriageway of the Kearsley Spur and its junction with the Kearsley roundabout (Bolton Road).

(3) For the purposes of this regulation the junction between the Kearsley Spur and the northbound exit slip road shall be taken to be marked by a gantry over the carriageway on which there are for the time being displayed traffic signs of the size, colour and type shown in diagram 670 of the Traffic Signs Regulations 1994(2) varied to indicate a speed limit of 50 miles per hour.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Gus Macdonald

Minister of State,

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

19th August 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations impose a speed limit of 50 miles per hour on part of the Kearsley Spur of the M61 Motorway and a slip road from that spur.

(1)

1984 c. 27. Section 17 was amended by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22); Schedule 8, paragraph 28 and Schedule 9 and by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40); Schedule 4, paragraph 25 and Schedule 8. Section 134(2) was amended by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, Schedule 8, paragraph 77.

(2)

Part I of S.I. 1994/1519, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.