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Item No. | Class of Vehicle | Maximum speed (in miles per hour) while vehicle is being driven on: | ||
(a) Motorway | (b) Dual carriageway road not being a motorway | (c) Other road | ||
1. | A passenger vehicle, motor caravan or dual-purpose vehicle not drawing a trailer being a vehicle with an unladen weight exceeding 3·05 tonnes or adapted to carry more than 8 passengers: | |||
(i) if not exceeding 12 metres in overall length | 70 | 60 | 50 | |
(ii) if exceeding 12 metres in overall length | 60 | 60 | 50 | |
2. | An invalid carriage | not applicable | 20 | 20 |
3. | A passenger vehicle, motor caravan, car-derived van or dual-purpose vehicle drawing one trailer | [F160] | [F160] | 50 |
4. | A passenger vehicle, motor caravan, car-derived van or dual-purpose vehicle drawing more than one trailer | 40 | 20 | 20 |
5. | (1) A goods vehicle having a maximum laden weight not exceeding 7·5 tonnes and which is not—(a) an articulated vehicle, or(b) drawing a trailer, or(c) a car-derived van | 70 | 60 | 50 |
(2) A goods vehicle which is— | ||||
(a) (i) an articulated vehicle having a maximum laden weight not exceeding 7·5 tonnes, or (ii) a motor vehicle, other than a car-derived van, which is drawing one trailer where the aggregate maximum laden weight of the motor vehicle and the trailer does not exceed 7·5 tonnes | 60 | [F260] | 50 | |
(b) (i) an articulated vehicle having a maximum laden weight exceeding 7·5 tonnes, (ii) a motor vehicle having a maximum laden weight exceeding 7·5 tonnes and not drawing a trailer, or (iii) a motor vehicle drawing one trailer where the aggregate maximum laden weight of the motor vehicle and the trailer exceeds 7·5 tonnes | 60 | [F350] [F360] | [F440] [F450] | |
(c) a motor vehicle, other than a car-derived van, drawing more than one trailer | 40 | 20 | 20 | |
6. | A motor tractor (other than an industrial tractor), a light locomotive or a heavy locomotive—(a) if the provisions about springs and wings as specified in paragraph 3 of Part IV of this Schedule are complied with and the vehicle is not drawing a trailer, or if those provisions are complied with and the vehicle is drawing one trailer which also complies with those provisions | 40 | 30 | 30 |
(b) in any other case | 20 | 20 | 20 | |
7. | A works truck | 18 | 18 | 18 |
8. | An industrial tractor | not applicable | 18 | 18 |
[F59]. | [F5An agricultural motor vehicle] | [F540] | [F540] | [F540] |
Textual Amendments
F1Figure "60" in Sch. 6 Pt. 1 item 3 substituted by S.I. 1986/1175, reg. 2(1)(a)
F2Figure "60" in Sch. 6 Pt. 1 item 5 substituted by S.I. 1986/1175, reg. 2(1)(b)
F3Figure "50" in Sch. 6 Pt. 1 item 5 substituted (E.W.) (6.4.2015) by The Motor Vehicles (Variation of Speed Limits) (England and Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3552), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(a)
F4Figure "40" in Sch. 6 Pt. 1 item 5 substituted (E,W.) (6.4.2015) by The Motor Vehicles (Variation of Speed Limits) (England and Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3552), regs. 1(1), 2(2)(b)
F5Item 9 in Sch. 6 Pt. 1 added by S.I. 1986/1175, reg. 2(1)(c)
[F6 For a vehicle falling within class 5(2)(b) above, the maximum speed while the vehicle is being driven on a part of the M9/A9 Trunk Road specified in the Schedule to the HGV Speed Limit (M9/A9 Trunk Road) Regulations 2014 is 50 miles per hour (rather than 40 miles per hour as specified in column 3(c) of the Table above). ]
Textual Amendments
F6Words in Sch. 6 Pt. I inserted (S.) (28.10.2014) by The HGV Speed Limit (M9/A9 Trunk Road) Regulations 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/274), regs. 1, 2
This Part applies only to motor vehicles, not being track-laying vehicles, every wheel of which is fitted with a pneumatic tyre and to such vehicles drawing one or more trailers, not being track-laying vehicles, every wheel of which is fitted with a pneumatic tyre.
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