This regulation sets reduced speed limits for certain highways and lets the Minister post lower limits in hazardous locations. Breaching the regulation is an offence and can lead to a penalty under the Act.
c t HIGHWAY TRAFFIC ACT REDUCED SPEED LIMITS REGULATIONS PLEASE NOTE This document, prepared by the Legislative Counsel Office, is an office consolidation of this regulation, current to December 31, 2002. It is intended for information and reference purposes only. This document is not the official version of these regulations. The regulations and the amendments printed in the Royal Gazette should be consulted on the Prince Edward Island Government web site to determine the authoritative text of these regulations. For more information concerning the history of these regulations, please see the Table of Regulations on the Prince Edward Island Government web site (www.princeedwardisland.ca). If you find any errors or omissions in this consolidation, please contact: Legislative Counsel Office Tel: (902) 368-4292 Email: legislation@gov.pe.ca Highway Traffic Act Reduced Speed Limits Regulations Section 1 c HIGHWAY TRAFFIC ACT Chapter H-5 REDUCED SPEED LIMITS REGULATIONS Made by the Lieutenant Governor in Council under the Highway Traffic Act R.S.P.E.I. 1988, Cap. H-5. 1. Prescribed speed limits The following lower rates of maximum speed are prescribed for the purposes of clauses 176(2)(d) and (e) of the Act and those provisions shall have effect subject to the following modifications: (d) eighty kilometers an hour in other locations during the daytime, unless otherwise posted in whole or in part under subclause (ii), (i) except the following highways that are hereby designated as having a speed limit of ninety kilometers an hour, unless otherwise in whole or in part posted under subclause (ii), (A) Route 1, being Borden to Charlottetown to Wood Islands, (B) Route 1A, being from Albany to Route 2 at Travellers Rest, (C) Route 3, being from Cherry Valley to Georgetown, (D) Route 4, being from Poole’s Corner to Montague, (E) Route 2, being from Souris to Charlottetown to Kensington to Tignish, (ii) except those highways or parts thereof deemed by the Minister to require lower maximum rates of speed because of unusual or hazardous geographic conditions on a highway or part thereof, or because of unusual or hazardous conditions resulting from the nature of the location of structures or obstructions, a highway or part thereof may be posted by the Minister as having a maximum rate of speed lower than those rates of speed prescribed in clauses (a) to (d) of this regulation, and where such lower maximum rate of speed is posted, the lower maximum rate of speed deemed to be required by the Minister shall be deemed to be prescribed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, and shall constitute the maximum rate of speed on the highway or part thereof so posted; (e) eighty kilometers an hour in other locations during the nighttime except as otherwise prescribed for the daytime under clause (d); the exceptions referred to in clause (d) shall be deemed to be set forth herein as exceptions under this clause. (EC1195/75; 622/77) c t Updated December 31, 2002 Page 3 Section 2 Highway Traffic Act Reduced Speed Limits Regulations 2. Penalties Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this regulation is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction, and is liable to a penalty as provided in subsection 176(3) of the Act. (EC754/76) Page 4 Updated December 31, 2002 t c