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25 1968

ROAD TRAFFIC ACT, 1968

PART IV

Speed Limits

General speed limit.

24. —Part IV of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion after section 44 of the following section:

“General speed limit

44A (1) The Minister may make regulations prescribing, in respect of all public roads, or all public roads with such exceptions as may be specified in the regulations, a speed limit (which shall be known as a general speed limit) for all mechanically propelled vehicles.

(2) Regulations under this section prescribing a general speed limit may except any class of vehicles from the limit and may restrict the limit to a particular period or to particular periods.”

Amendment of section 46 of Principal Act.

25. —Section 46 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the deletion of subsection (2) and by the deletion of “of the day and night” in subsection (3) (b).

Amendment of section 47 of Principal Act.

26. —Section 47 of the Principal Act is hereby amended—

(a) by the insertion after subsection (2) of the following subsection:

“(2A) In a prosecution for an offence under this section for driving a mechanically propelled vehicle, at a speed exceeding the built-up area speed limit or a special speed limit applying in relation to the vehicle, on a road in respect of which the built-up area speed limit or a special speed limit is indicated by one or more than one traffic sign within the meaning of section 95 of this Act, it shall be presumed, until the contrary is shown by the defendant, that the limit so indicated applied in respect of that road at the time when the offence is alleged to have been committed.”, and

(b) by the insertion after subsection (3) (a) of—

“(aa) a general speed limit,”.