Statutory Instruments
2025 No. 246
Road Traffic, England
Special Roads, England
The M23 Motorway (Junction 7) (50 Miles Per Hour Speed Limit) Regulations 2025
Made
3rd March 2025
Laid before Parliament
7th March 2025
Coming into force
31st March 2025
The Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 17(2), (3) and (3ZB) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1).
The Secretary of State has consulted representative organisations in accordance with section 134(2) of that Act(2).
Citation, commencement and extent
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the M23 Motorway (Junction 7) (50 Miles Per Hour Speed Limit) Regulations 2025.
(2) They come into force on 31st March 2025.
(3) They extend to England and Wales.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations—
“ A23 ” means the A23 trunk road;
“ M23 ” means the M23 motorway; and
“ Shepherd’s Hill Road Overbridge ” means the section of the B2031 Shepherd’s Hill Road which spans the M23.
Imposition of 50 miles per hour speed limit
3. Subject to regulation 4, no person may drive any vehicle at a speed exceeding 50 miles per hour on the length of the M23 junction 7 northbound off-slip road beginning at a point which is 212 metres south of the centre of Shepherd’s Hill Road Overbridge and ending at the point where the slip road joins the A23.
Exemption
4. Regulation 3 does not apply in relation to a length of road if a speed restriction is in force by virtue of an order or notice under section 14 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(3).
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
Lilian Greenwood
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Transport
3rd March 2025
1984 c. 27. Section 17(2) was amended by paragraph 28(3) of Schedule 8 to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22), paragraph 25 of Schedule 4 to the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40) and section 21(3) of the Scotland Act 2012 (c. 11). Section 17(3ZB) was inserted by section 21(4) of the Scotland Act 2012. For the meaning of “use” in section 17(2), see section 17(6). For the meaning of “special road” in section 17(2), see section 142(1) (as amended by paragraph 78(5) of Schedule 8 to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991), which provides that “special road” in England and Wales has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980 (c. 66). “Special road” is defined in section 329(1) of that Act, as amended by paragraph 29(2) of Schedule 2 to the Planning Act 2008 (c. 29).
Section 134(2) was amended by paragraph 12(3) of Schedule 2 to the Scotland Act 2016 (c. 11).
Section 14 was substituted by the Road Traffic (Temporary Restrictions) Act 1991 (c. 26), section 1(1) and Schedule 1.