The M5 Motorway (Junction 12 Improvement Slip Roads) Order 2001

• Citation: S.I. 2001/434
• Sections: 5

Section 1

This Order may be cited as the M5 Motorway (Junction 12 Improvement Slip Roads) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 8th March 2001.

Section 2

In this Order—

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

(2)

(i) “the new trunk roads” means the slip roads;

(ii) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA 16/PS/25 marked “The M5 Motorway (Junction 12 Improvement Slip Roads) Order 2001”, 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; and

(iii) “the slip roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in the Schedule to this Order and which connect the existing trunk road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule.

Section 3

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 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 so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure of 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.