Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the HGV Speed Limit (M9/A9 Trunk Road) Regulations 2014 and come into force 7 days after the day on which they are made.
Increased speed limit
2. In Schedule 6 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (speed limits for vehicles of certain classes)(1), in Part I after the Table insert—
“For a vehicle falling within class 5(2)(b) above, the maximum speed while the vehicle is being driven on a part of the M9/A9 Trunk Road specified in the Schedule to the HGV Speed Limit (M9/A9 Trunk Road) Regulations 2014 is 50 miles per hour (rather than 40 miles per hour as specified in column 3(c) of the Table above).”.
Specified parts of the M9/A9 Trunk Road
3. The Schedule to these Regulations specifies the parts of the M9/A9 Trunk Road referred to in Part I of Schedule 6 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.
Name
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
Date