Road Traffic Act, 1961

Built-up area speed limits.

45.—(1) (a) There shall be a speed limit of thirty miles per hour in respect of all public roads in built-up areas for all mechanically propelled vehicles.

(b) The Minister may, with respect to the limit specified in paragraph (a) of this subsection, by regulations—

(i) increase or reduce it,

(ii) restrict it to particular periods of the day and night.

(2) Each of the following roads shall be a public road in a built-up area for the purposes of this section:

(a) a public road which is in a county or other borough, an urban district or a town, other than a road which is declared by the Minister by regulations not to be a public road in a built-up area for those purposes;

(b) a public road which is not in a county or other borough, an urban district or a town and which is declared by the Minister by regulations to be a public road in a built-up area for those purposes.

(3) The Minister may by regulations except any class of mechanically propelled vehicles from the built-up area speed limit.

(4) In this Act “built-up area speed limit” means the speed limit under this section.