s 2 Exclusion of county of London and of county boroughs.
(1) No road which is within the county of London or within any county borough shall, by virtue of this Act, become a trunk road. (2) In the event of the extension of the area of the county of London, or of the constitution of any new county borough, or of the extension of the area of any county borough, all roads within the county of London, or of the county borough, as the case may be, which immediately before the alteration were trunk roads shall cease to be trunk roads and the council of the metropolitan borough within which the roads are situated, or the council of the county borough, as the case may be, shall become the highway authority for those roads.