Motor Traffic (Speed Limits) Regulations, No. 1 of 2012
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I fldgi ( ^I& fPoh - YS% ,xld m%cd;dka;s%l iudcjd§ ckrcfha w;s úfYI .eiÜ m;%h - 2012'06'22 1A PART I : SEC. (I) - GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA - 22.06.2012 Y%S ,xld m%cd;dka;%sl iudcjd§ ckrcfha .eiÜ m;%h w;s úfYI The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka EXTRAORDINARY wxl 1763$26 - 2012 cqks ui 22 jeks isl=rdod - 2012'06'22 No. 1763/26 - FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2012 (Published by Authority) PART I : SECTION (I) — GENERAL Government Notifications L.D.B. 24/51. THE MOTOR TRAFFIC ACT (CHAPTER 203) REGULATIONS made by the Minister of Transport under Sections 140, 141 and 164 of the Motor Traffic Act (Chapter 203) read with Section 237 of the aforesaid Act. KUMARA WELGAMA, Minister of Transport. Colombo, 14th June, 2012. Regulations 1. These regulations may be cited as the Motor Traffic (Speed Limits) Regulations, No. 1 of 2012. 2. (1) The roads classified as “A” Roads, “AB” Roads, “B” Roads and “Colombo Municipal Council Roads” and set out in Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV of the Schedule to these regulations shall be known as “Built-up- area” as along the roads. (2) The speed limit which shall be applicable in respect of all motor vehicles operating on the sections of the “Built-up areas” along the roads as are identified in Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV of the Schedule to these regulations shall be fifty (50) kilometres per hour (kmph): Provided however, that the speed limit which shall be applicable in respect of land vehicles, motor tricycles, motor tricycle vans and special purpose vehicles operating on the section of the built-up roads specified above, shall be forty (40) kilometres per hour (kmph). 3. (1) All other road sections in Sri Lanka which are not specified in the Schedule to these regulations shall be known as “Non-Built-up areas”. (2) The speed limit which shall be applicable in respect of the road sections of the Non-Built-up areas shall be as follows:- (a) seventy (70) kilometres per hour (kmph) for all categories of motor vehicles; and (b) sixty (60) kilometres per hour (kmph) for all motor coaches and all lorries: 1A 2A I fldgi ( ^I& fPoh - YS% ,xld m%cd;dka;s%l iudcjd§ ckrcfha w;s úfYI .eiÜ m;%h - 2012'06'22 PART I : SEC. (I) - GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA - 22.06.2012 Provided however, that the speed limit which shall be applicable in respect of land vehicles, motor tricycles, motor tricycle vans and special purpose vehicles operating on non-built up areas as are specified above, shall be forty (40) kilometres per hour (kmph). 4. The speed limits specified in these regulations shall be depicted by way of signs fixed at the relevant sections of the built-up and the non-built up areas along the roads to which these regulations apply. The signs so fixed shall conform in all particulars to the specifications set out for traffic signs as are contained in the Motor Traffic (Traffic Signs, Signals, Symbols and Road Markings Regulations, published in the Gazette Extraordinary No. 441/ 18 of March 13, 1984, and further in the event that such regulation is rescinded, by any other regulation which shall be promulgated in its place. 5. The Motor Vehicles (Speed Limit) Regulations - 1995 published in Gazette Extraordinary No. 853/14 of January 13, 1995 as last amended by regulation published in Gazette Extraordinary No. 1576/29 of November 21, 2008, is hereby rescinded. 6. In these regulations 'land vehicle', 'lorries', ''motor coaches", motor vehicles", ''motor tricycles", ''motor tricycle vans" and special purpose vehicles" shall have the same meaning as in the Motor Traffic Act (Chapter 203). SCHEDULE (Regulation 2) Part I - ''A" ROADS Description of Built-up areas along the roads or sections of roads to which the speed limits are applicable 12 3 4 5 Sr. Route Name of the Road Township Section (km.) No. No. From To Section Western Province: Length 1 A00 Kollupitiya - Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte MC 6.40 11.20 4.80 2 A01 Colombo - Kandy Peliyagoda 6.00 11.00 5.00 3 A01 Colombo - Kandy Kiribathgoda 11.00 14.00 3.00 4 A01 Colombo - Kandy Mahara 14.00 14.50 0.50 5 A01 Colombo - Kandy Kadawata 15.00 17.00 2.00 6 A01 Colombo - Kandy Imbulgoda 21.00 22.50 1.50 7 A01 Colombo - Kandy Balummahara 26.50 27.50 1.00 8 A01 Colombo - Kandy Yakkala 29.50 30.50 1.00 9 A01 Colombo - Kandy Thihariya 36.00 37.50 1.50 10 A01 Colombo - Kandy Nittambuwa 39.25 40.50 1.25 11 A02 Colombo - Galle - Hambantota-Wellawaya Colombo - MC 0.00 6.40 6.40 12 A02 Colombo - Galle - Hambantota-Wellawaya Dehiwala/Mt. Lavinia 10.00 16.00 6.00 13 A02 Colombo - Galle - Hambantota-Wellawaya Angulana 16.00 17.00 1.00 14 A02 Colombo - Galle - Hambantota-Wellawaya Katubedda 17.00 18.00 1.00 15 A02 Colombo - Galle - Hambantota-Wellawaya Rawatawatta 18.00 25.00 7.00 16 A02 Colombo - Galle - Hambantota-Wellawaya Wadduwa 32.50 33.50 1.00 17 A02 Colombo - Galle - Hambantota-Wellawaya Panadura 25.00 27.50 2.50 18 A02 Colombo - Galle - Hambantota-Wellawaya Kalutara 41.00 45.50 4.50 19 A02 Colombo - Galle - Hambantota-Wellawaya Maggona 51.00 52.50 1.50 20 A02 Colombo - Galle - Hambantota-Wellawaya Beruwala 54.50 57.00 2.50 21 A02 Colombo - Galle - Hambantota-Wellawaya Aluthgama 59.50 61.50 2.00 22 A03 Peliyagoda - Puttalam Peliyagoda 0.00 8.50 8.50 I fldgi ( ^I& fPoh - YS% ,xld m%cd;dka;s%l iudcjd§ ckrcfha w;s úfYI .eiÜ m;%h - 2012'06'22 3A PART I : SEC. (I) - GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY OF THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF SRI LANKA - 22.06.2012 12 3 4 5 Sr. Route Name of the Road Township Section (km) No. No. From To Section Length 23 A03 Peliyagoda - Puttalam Kandana 10.25 11.25 1.00 24 A03 Peliyagoda - Puttalam Ja Ela 14.00 15.50 1.50 25 A03 Peliyagoda - Puttalam Negombo 28.50 32.00 3.50 26 A03 Peliyagoda - Puttalam Kochchikade 36.50 38.50 2.00 27 A04 Colombo - Ratnapura-Wellawaya-Batticaloa Colombo-Pannipitiya 7.50 19.50 12.00 28 A04 Colombo - Ratnapura-Wellawaya-Batticaloa 22.50 25.00 2.50 29 A04 Colombo - Ratnapura-Wellawaya-Batticaloa 29.00 30.00 1.00 30 A04 Colombo - Ratnapura-Wellawaya-Batticaloa Kaluaggala 41.50 42.50 1.00 31 A04 Colombo - Ratnapura-Wellawaya-Batticaloa Kosgama 47.00 48.00 1.00 32 A04 Colombo - Ratnapura-Wellawaya-Batticaloa Puwakpitiya-Avissawella 53.75 59.00 5.25 33 A07 Avissawella - Hatton - Nuwara Eliya Avissawella to 0.00 1.75 1.75 Meewitigammana 34 A08 Panadura-Nambapana-Ratnapura Bandaragama 9.20 10.40 1.20 35 A08 Panadura-Nambapana-Ratnapura Pokunuwita 15.00 16.00 1.00 36 A08 Panadura-Nambapana-Ratnapura Horana 17.50 20.75 3.25 37 A08 Panadura-Nambapana-Ratnapura Ingiriya 31.50 32.50 1.00 38 A08 Panadura-Nambapana-Ratnapura Panadura 0.00 1.00 1.00 39 A08 Panadura-Nambapana-Ratnapura Eluwila 2.00 3.00 1.00 40 A33 Ja Ela - Ekala - Gampaha - Yakkala Ja Ela 0.00 3.00 3.00 Central Province: 1 A01 Colombo - Kandy Kadugannawa 100.00 103.00 3.00 2 A01 Colombo - Kandy Pilimatalawa 103.00 105.50 2.50 3 A01 Colombo - Kandy Kiribathkumbura 106.50 109.20 2.70 4 A01 Colombo - Kandy Kandy MC 109.25 115.75 6.50 5 A05 Peradeniya-Badulla-Chenkaladi Peradeniya 0.00 2.00 2.00 6 A05 Peradeniya-Badulla-Chenkaladi Gelioya 5.80 7.50 1.70 7 A05 Peradeniya-Badulla-Chenkaladi Weligalla 8.70 9.70 1.00 8 A05 Peradeniya-Badulla-Chenkaladi Gampola UC 11.50 15.00 3.50 9 A05 Peradeniya-Badulla-Chenkaladi Paradeka 22.00 23.00 1.00 10 A05 Peradeniya-Badulla-Chenkaladi Pussellawa 26.50 28.00 1.50 11 A05 Peradeniya-Badulla-Chenkaladi Nuwara Eliya 65.00 68.00 3.00 12 A05 Peradeniya-Badulla-Chenkaladi Hakgala 75.00 76.00 1.00 13 A06 Ambepussa-Kurunegala-Trincomalee Galewela 73.75 76.75 3.00 14 A06 Ambepussa-Kurunegala-Trincomalee Dambulla 88.75 92.50 3.75 15 A07 Avissawella-Hatton-Nuwara Eliya Ginigathhena 52.00 55.00 3.00 16 A07 Avissawella-Hatton-Nuwara Eliya Watawala 61.00 62.00 1.00 17 A07 Avissawella-Hatton-Nuwara Eliya Hatton 71.50 72.50 1.00 18 A07 Avissawella-Hatton-Nuwara Eliya Kotagala 76.50 78.50 2.00 19 A07 Avissawella-Hatton-Nuwara Eliya Talawakela 86.80 89.00 2.20 20 A07 Avissawella-Hatton-Nuwara Eliya Lindula 91.00 92.00 1.00 21 A07 Avissawella-Hatton-Nuwara Eliya Nanuoya 109.00 110.00 1.00 22 A07 Avissawella-Hatton-Nuwara Eliya Nuwara Eliya 114.40 115.40 1.00 23 A09 Kandy-Jaffna Kandy MC 0.00 5.50 5.50 24 A09 Kandy-Jaffna Ambatenna 7.00 8.00 1.00 25 A09 Kandy-Jaffna Akurana 8.50 11.50 3.00 26 A09 Kandy-Jaffna Alawathugoda 15.80 16.80 1.00 27 A09 Kandy-Jaffna Matale MC 24.00 30.50 6.50 28 A09 Kandy-Jaffna Palapathwela 32.50 33.80 1.30 4A I fldgi ( ^I& fPoh - YS% ,xld m%cd;dka;s%l iudcjd§ ckrcfha w;s úfYI .eiÜ m;%h - 2012'06'22 PART I : SEC.