The M23 Motorway (Junction 7) (50 Miles Per Hour Speed Limit) Regulations 2025
UK Statutory Instrument 2025 No. 246 — creates 1 criminal offence.
- Made
- 3 March 2025
- In force from
- 31 March 2025
- 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 impose a permanent speed limit of 50 miles per hour on the northbound M23 off-slip road at junction 7 leading onto the A23. 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 private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen. An Explanatory Memorandum is published alongside the Regulations at www.legislation.gov.uk.
Offences created by this instrument
- Contravention of The M23 Motorway (Junction 7) (50 Miles Per Hour Speed Limit) Regulations 2025 the instrument as a whole · Status not determined · Strict liability
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
- Instrument created 3 March 2025
- Instrument made (signed into law) 3 March 2025
- Laid before the House of Commons 7 March 2025 · Commons
- Laid before the House of Lords 7 March 2025 · Lords
- Considered by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 18 March 2025 · Lords
- No comment by the Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee (SLSC) 18 March 2025 · Lords
- Instrument comes into force as law 31 March 2025
- Considered by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 23 April 2025 · Commons, Lords
- Not drawn to the special attention of the Houses by the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI) 23 April 2025 · Commons, Lords
- Objection period ends 24 April 2025
- Instrument remains law 24 April 2025
- Procedure concluded in the House of Commons and the House of Lords 24 April 2025 · Commons, Lords
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