The A13 Trunk Road (Ironbridge to Canning Town Improvement, Trunk Road, Slip Roads and Bridges) Order 1998

• Citation: S.I. 1998/1734
• Sections: 6

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the A13 Trunk Road (Ironbridge to Canning Town Improvement, Trunk Road, Slip Roads and Bridges) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 30th July 1998.

Section 2

In this Order:

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

(b)

(i) “the main new roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct as parts of the trunk road along the routes described in Schedule 1 to this Order and references to route (a), route (b) and route (c) are respectively references to routes described in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of that Schedule;

(ii) “the new trunk roads” means the main new roads and the slip roads as referred to in site plan 1;

(iii) “the plan” means the plan folio numbered LRO 64/77/2/01, comprising a Key Plan and three Site Plans respectively numbered 1–3 marked “The A13 Trunk Road (Ironbridge to Canning Town Improvement, Trunk Road, Slip Roads and Bridges) Order 1998”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and deposited at the Highways Agency, St Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE;

(iv) “the slip roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order and which will connect the main new roads with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule; and

(v) “the trunk road” means the A13 Trunk Road locally known as East India Dock Road and Newham Way.

Section 3

The main roads and the slip roads shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.

Section 4

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

Section 5

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 maintainable at public expense by a local highway authority, the part in question shall be maintained by that authority, and

(b) where the highway is not 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 traffic.

Section 6

The Secretary of State is authorised to construct the bridges specified in Schedules 3 and 4 to this Order as part of those slip roads along the routes given the numbers 4 and 5 on the plan.