Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 1762 (S.167)

The Stepps Bypass (M80) and Connecting Roads and the Glasgow Monklands Motorway (Stage I) (Speed Limit) Amendment Regulations 1992

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1992 No. 1762 (S.167)

ROAD TRAFFIC
SPECIAL ROADS

The Stepps Bypass (M80) and Connecting Roads and the Glasgow Monklands Motorway (Stage I) (Speed Limit) Amendment Regulations 1992

Made	15th July 1992

Laid before Parliament

17th July 1992

Coming into force

9th August 1992

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 17(2)(a) and (3) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(^[1]), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having consulted such representative organisations as he thinks fit in accordance with section 134(2) of the said Act, hereby makes the following Regulations:

    1.    These Regulations may be cited as the Stepps Bypass (M80) and Connecting Roads and the Glasgow Monklands Motorway (Stage I) (Speed Limit) Amendment Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 9th August 1992.

    2.    In these Regulations "the 1975 Regulations " means the Glasgow-Monkland Motorway (Stage I) (Speed Limit) Regulations 1975(^[2]).

    3.    No person shall drive any motor vehicle on any length of special road specified in column 1 of the Schedule to these Regulations at a speed greater than that specified opposite to such length in column 2 of the Schedule.

    4.    For paragraphs (1) and (2) of the Schedule to the 1975 Regulations there shall be substituted the following:

Column 1	Column 2
(1)aOn the main westbound carriageway of the Glasgow-Monkland Motorway from a point 672 yards or thereby east of the centre line of Castle Street to a point 517 yards or thereby east of the centre line of the footbridge at Sannox Gardens, a distance of 1590 yards or thereby.	50 mph
(1)bOn the main westbound carriageway of the Glasgow-Monkland Motorway from a point 517 yards or thereby east of the centre line of the footbridge at Sannox Gardens to a point 38 yards or thereby east of the centre line of Cumbernauld Road, a distance of 1480 yards or thereby.	60 mph
(2)aOn the main eastbound carriageway of the Glasgow-Monkland Motorway from a point 672 yards or thereby east of the centre line of Castle Street to a point 517 yards or thereby east of the centre line of the footbridge at Sannox Gardens, a distance of 1590 yards or thereby.	50 mph
(2)bOn the main eastbound carriageway of the Glasgow-Monkland Motorway from a point 517 yards or thereby east of the footbridge at Sannox Gardens to a point 38 yards or thereby east of the centre line of Cumbernauld Road, a distance of 1480 yards or thereby.	60 mph

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Scottish Office
St Andrew's House, Edinburgh

15th July 1992

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Notes:

[1] 1984 c. 27; section 17(2) was amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 (c. 40), Schedule 4, paragraph 25.

[2] S.I. 1975/932.

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