The M56 Motorway (Junctions 6 to 7) (Variable Speed Limits) Regulations 2022
UK Statutory Instrument 2022 No. 607 — creates 1 criminal offence.
- Made
- 4 June 2022
- In force from
- 12 September 2022
- Extent
- Not stated
- Subject
- Road traffic and vehicles
- Made under
- Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
These Regulations introduce variable speed limits to– a the eastbound and westbound carriageways of the M56 motorway between junctions 6 and 7; b the entirety of the eastbound off-slip road at junction 6; and c parts of other slip roads at junctions 6 and 7. Regulation 3 provides for variable speed limits to have effect on the roads specified in paragraph 1 of the Schedule. Where variable speed limit signs are in operation a vehicle may not be driven at a speed above the maximum indicated by each speed limit sign passed by a vehicle until it passes a sign indicating that the national speed limit applies or the vehicle leaves the roads covered by the regulation. Where a speed limit changes less than ten seconds before a vehicle passes the sign and the sign had indicated a higher speed limit, the regulation allows the driver to proceed at a speed up to the maximum applicable before the change. Where the speed limit sign indicates a speed limit when it is passed by a vehicle but less than ten seconds previously it was either giving no indication of a speed limit or that the national speed limit applied, the sign is to be taken as giving no indication of a speed limit to the vehicle passing it. 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.
Offences created by this instrument
- Contravention of The M56 Motorway (Junctions 6 to 7) (Variable Speed Limits) Regulations 2022 the instrument as a whole · Status not determined · Strict liability
What Parliament said about it
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- M56 Motorway (Junctions 6 to 7) (Variable Speed Limits) Regulations 2022
Lords · Lords Chamber · 11 July 2022 · Baroness Randerson
That this House regrets that the M56 Motorway (Junctions 6 to 7) (Variable Speed Limits) Regulations 2022 do not sufficiently take into account recent evidence about the risks of smart motorways and the use of the hard shoulder as a running lane, nor the concerns raised by the House of Commons Transport Committee, which recommended the pause of the rollout of future All Lane Running smart motorway schemes until a full five years’ worth of safety data is available. (SI 2022/607). Relevant document: 5th Report from the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (special attention drawn to the…
- M56 Motorway (Junctions 6 to 7) (Variable Speed Limits) Regulations 2022 Lords · Lords Chamber · 11 July 2022
How Parliament handled it
This instrument became law without a vote to approve it. A non-fatal motion to object was tabled, which records disapproval without stopping the instrument.
- Procedure
- Made negative — law unless a motion to stop it succeeded
- Could either House amend it?
- No. A statutory instrument is put to each House as a whole thing, to be approved or not. Neither House can change a word of it.
- Objection motion
- A non-fatal motion to object was tabled — it records disapproval without stopping the instrument
- Committee
- Drawn to the special attention of the Houses by a scrutiny committee
Procedural history
- Instrument created 4 June 2022
- Instrument made (signed into law) 4 June 2022
- Laid before the House of Commons 6 June 2022 · Commons
- Laid before the House of Lords 6 June 2022 · Lords
- Considered by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 21 June 2022 · Lords
- Drawn to the special attention of the House by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 21 June 2022 · Lords
- Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) draws the special attention of the House to the instrument on the grounds that it is politically or legally important or gives rise to issues of public policy likely to be of interest to the House 21 June 2022 · Lords
- Considered by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 22 June 2022 · Commons, Lords
- Not drawn to the special attention of the Houses by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 22 June 2022 · Commons, Lords
- Non-fatal motion (prayer) to object to the instrument tabled 23 June 2022 · Lords
- Further information published by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 28 June 2022 · Lords
- Chamber debate 11 July 2022 · Lords
- Non-fatal motion (prayer) to object to the instrument withdrawn 11 July 2022 · Lords
- Objection period ends 15 July 2022
- Instrument remains law 15 July 2022
- Procedure concluded in the House of Commons and the House of Lords 15 July 2022 · Commons, Lords
- Instrument comes into force as law 12 September 2022
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