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23 Speed limit in school zone (1) The speed limit applying to a driver for any length of road in a school zone is the number of kilometres per hour indicated by the number on the school zone sign on a road, or the road, into the zone. school zone means— (a) if there is a school zone sign and an end school zone sign, or a speed limit sign with a different number on the sign, on a road and there is no intersection on the length of road between the signs—that length of road; or
(b) if there is a school zone sign on a road that ends in a dead end and there is no intersection, nor a sign mentioned in paragraph (a), on the length of road beginning at the sign and ending at the dead end—that length of road; or (c) in any other case—the network of roads in an area with— (i) a school zone sign on each road into the area, indicating the (ii) an end school zone sign, or a speed limit sign indicating a different number, on each road out of the area. (3) In subsection (2) (c):