The A406 London North Circular Trunk Road (Improvement between Silver Street and Hall Lane Trunk Roads, Slip Roads and Bridge) Order 1991

• Citation: S.I. 1991/1447
• Sections: 6

Section 1

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

(a) along the routes described in Schedules 1, 2 and 3 to this Order (the highways along each of these routes being in this Order referred to as “the main new trunk road”); and

(b) along the routes described in Schedules 1, 2 and 3 to this Order which connect the trunk road and the main new trunk roads with other highways at the places stated in those Schedules (the highways along these routes being in this Order referred to as “the trunk road slip roads”),

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

Section 2

The centre line of each of the new trunk roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.

Section 3

The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new trunk roads 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, enclosure 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 purposes of through traffic.

Section 4

The Secretary of State is hereby authorised to construct as part of the main new trunk road referred to in Schedule 3 hereto and as part of the trunk road slip roads also referred to in that Schedule and numbered 12 and 13 on the deposited plan, that part of the bridge specified in Schedule 4 hereto which will carry part of those roads over the River Lee Navigation.

Section 5

In this Order–

(1) All measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway:

(2)

(i) “the deposited plan” means the plans in the plan folio numbered LRO 64/19/2/02 and marked “The A406 London North Circular Trunk Road (Improvement between Silver Street and Hall Lane Trunk Roads, Slip Roads and Bridge) Order 1991”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;

(ii) “the new trunk roads” means the main new trunk roads and the trunk roads slip roads and “a new trunk road” means one of those highways; and

(iii) “the trunk road” means the A406 London North Circular Trunk Road.

Section 6

This Order shall come into force on 11th July 1991 and may be cited as the A406 London North Circular Trunk Road (Improvement between Silver Street and Hall Lane Trunk Roads, Slip Roads and Bridge) Order 1991.