Road Traffic (Speed Limits) Regulations, 1963.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: These Regulations may be cited as the Road Traffic (Speed Limits) Regulations, 1963.
2 Commencement.
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paragraphs: These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1963.
3 Interpretation.
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paragraphs: In these Regulations, save where the context otherwise requires
" the Act " means the Road Traffic Act, 1961 ;
" road " means a public road;
" perimeter road " means a road on and along the roadway of which there runs the boundary of a county or other borough, an urban district or a town;
" ordinary speed limit ", " special speed limit " and " built-up area speed limit " have the meanings respectively assigned to them in Part IV of the Act;
" distance " means distance as measured along the centre line of a road;
" station wagons " includes station wagons, estate cars and other similar vehicles which are constructed or adapted for alternative purposes (including the carriage of one or more passengers) and which are fitted with seats, whether rigid, collapsible or detachable, in the area to the rear of the driver's seat;
" passenger accommodation " means seating passenger accommodation determined in accordance with the provisions of the Road Traffic (Passenger Accommodation of Mechanically Propelled Vehicles) Regulations, 1962 ( S.I. No. 143 of 1962 ).
4 Ordinary Speed Limits.
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paragraphs: (1) There shall be a speed limit of fifty miles per hour in respect of all roads for—
(a) station wagons and
(b) single-decked mechanically propelled vehicles intended or adapted primarily for the carriage of passengers
which have passenger accommodation for more than eight persons.
(2) There shall be a speed limit of forty miles per hour in respect of all roads for double-decked mechanically propelled vehicles intended or adapted primarily for the carriage of passengers and having passenger accommodation for more than eight persons.
(3) There shall be a speed limit of forty miles per hour in respect of all roads for mechanically propelled vehicles not intended or adapted primarily for the carriage of passengers and which exceed two tons in weight unladen.
(4) (a) There shall be speed limits in respect of all roads for mechanically propelled vehicles drawing another vehicle or vehicles as follows :—
(i) where the drawn vehicle is attached to the mechanically propelled vehicle by way of partial superimposition, and no other vehicle is drawn, the speed limit shall be forty miles per hour;
(ii) where the drawn vehicle is not so attached, and no other vehicle is drawn, the speed limit shall be thirty-five miles per hour;
(iii) where there is more than one drawn vehicle the speed limit shall be twenty miles per hour.
(b) There shall be excepted from the speed limits prescribed in sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph any mechanically propelled vehicle drawing not more than one vehicle the weight unladen of which does not exceed 5 cwts.
(5) A speed limit prescribed in this article shall not apply in respect of any road in respect of which a lesser speed limit is prescribed in the act or in these Regulations.
5 Built-up area speed limit.
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paragraphs: (1) Each of the roads described in the First Schedule to these Regulations is hereby declared not to be a public road in a built-up area for the purposes of section 45 of the act.