The M23 Motorway (Gatwick Spur) (50 Miles Per Hour Speed Limit) Regulations 2020

Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 721

Road Traffic

Special Roads

The M23 Motorway (Gatwick Spur) (50 Miles Per Hour Speed Limit) Regulations 2020

Made

6th July 2020

Laid before Parliament

13th July 2020

Coming into force

3rd August 2020

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17(2) and (3) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1).

Representative organisations have been consulted in accordance with section 134(2) of that Act.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the M23 Motorway (Gatwick Spur) (50 Miles Per Hour Speed Limit) Regulations 2020 and come into force on 3rd August 2020.

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations—

“carriageway” and “motorway” have the same meaning as in the Motorways Traffic (England and Wales) Regulations 1982(2);

“the eastern roundabout” means the circular intersection of the Gatwick Spur, Airport Way, Ring Road North and Ring Road South;

“the Gatwick Spur” means the eastbound and westbound carriageways of the M23 motorway connecting Airport Way, Ring Road North and Ring Road South with the northbound and southbound carriageways of the M23 motorway at junction 9; and

“the specified road” means that length of the westbound carriageway of the Gatwick Spur beginning at the eastern end of the parapet railing on the southern edge of the bridge carrying the Gatwick Spur over Peaks Brook Lane and ending at the junction with the eastern roundabout.

50 miles per hour speed limit

3.  No person shall drive a vehicle on the specified road at a speed exceeding 50 miles per hour.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Vere

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

6th July 2020

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations introduce a 50 miles per hour speed limit on part of the westbound carriageway of the Gatwick Spur on the M23 motorway.

Contravention of these Regulations is an offence under section 17(4) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984.

An impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations as no significant impact on the cost of business or the voluntary sector is foreseen. An Explanatory Memorandum is published alongside the Regulations at www.legislation.gov.uk.

(1)

1984 c.27; section 17(2) was amended by the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c.22), Schedule 8, Part 2, paragraph 28(3); section 17(2)(b) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40), Schedule 8; section 17(2)(d) was inserted by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c.40), Schedule 4, paragraph 25. There are other amendments to sections 17 and 134 which are not relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

S.I. 1982/1163, relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/374, 1984/1479, 1992/1364, 1995/158, 2004/3258, 2015/392.