The London-Carlisle-Glasgow-Inverness Trunk Road (A6) (Barton-Le-Clay Bypass and Slip Road) Order 1988

• Citation: S.I. 1988/272
• Sections: 6

Section 1

The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct—

(a) along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order (the highway along this route being in this Order referred to as “the main new trunk road”); and

(b) along the route described in Schedule 2 to this Order (the highway along this route being in this Order referred to as “the slip road”),

shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.

Section 2

The centre lines of the new trunk roads are indicated by heavy black lines on the deposited plan.

Section 3

The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of a new trunk road that—

(a) where the highway is a highway maintainable at the public expense by a local highway authority, the part in question shall be maintained by that authority; and

(b) where the highway is not a highway so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclose or prescription, the Secretary of State shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question,

until, in either case, a date to be specified in a notice given by the Secretary of State to the highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the relevant route is opened for the purpose of through traffic.

Section 4

The length of trunk road described in Schedule 3 to this Order and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as a classified road as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of Bedfordshire that the new trunk roads are open for through traffic.

Section 5

In this Order—

(1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;

(2)

(i) “classified road”

(ii) “the deposited plan”

(iii) “the new trunk roads”

(iv) “the Trunk Road”

Section 6

This Order shall come into force on 7th March 1988 and may be cited as the London—Carlisle-Glasgow-Inverness Trunk Road (A6) (Barton-Le-Clay Bypass and Slip Road) Order 1988.