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The M621 Motorway (Speed Limit) Regulations 2024

UK Statutory Instrument 2024 No. 683 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
22 May 2024
In force from
25 June 2024
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 revoke and replace the M621 Motorway (Speed Limit) Regulations 2000 which imposed speed limit restrictions on the M621 Motorway in Leeds. They also revoke the M621 Motorway (Speed Limit) (Amendment) Regulations 2007, which amended the M621 Motorway (Speed Limit) Regulations 2000. These Regulations impose new speed limits on specified lengths of the M621 Motorway, to take account of improvements to the road layout. The speed limit provisions are as follows— a Regulation 3(1) and Schedule 1 of these Regulations impose a 50 miles per hour speed limit on the specified lengths of the M621 motorway; b Regulation 3(2) and Schedule 2 of these Regulations impose a 40 miles per hour speed limit on specified lengths of the M621 motorway; and c Regulation 3(3) and Schedule 3 of these Regulations impose a 30 miles per hour speed limit on specified lengths of the M621 motorway. Contravention of these Regulations is an offence under section 17(4) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984. A full impact assessment has not been produced for these Regulations as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen. An Explanatory Memorandum is published alongside the Regulations at www.legislation.gov.uk.

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What Parliament said about it

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How Parliament handled it

This instrument became law without a debate or a vote. Under the negative procedure it took effect unless a motion to stop it succeeded, and none was tabled.

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.

Procedural history

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