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Built-up area speed limits.
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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.
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(b) The Minister may, with respect to the limit specified in paragraph (a) of this subsection, by regulations—
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(i) increase or reduce it,
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(ii) restrict it to particular periods of the day and night.
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(2) Each of the following roads shall be a public road in a built-up area for the purposes of this section:
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(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;
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(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.
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(3) The Minister may by regulations except any class of mechanically propelled vehicles from the built-up area speed limit.
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(4) In this Act “built-up area speed limit” means the speed limit under this section.
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