Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976

6 Revocation and amendment of orders prescribing new streets

(1) A county council, a London borough council or the Common Council may by an order in writing—

(a) revoke a new street order ;

(b) amend a new street order relating to two or more streets so as to reduce the number of streets to which the order relates ;

(c) amend a new street order so as to exclude from it a part of a street but not so as to make the order relate to parts of the same street which are not continuous.

(2) It shall be the duty of a council which proposes to make an order in pursuance of the preceding subsection to cause notice of the proposal to be displayed, at least one month before it makes the order, in a conspicuous position in each street to which the proposal relates and to include in the notice a statement indicating that the order may be made on or at any time after a date specified in the notice.

(3) Where a county council makes an order in pursuance of subsection (1) of this section it shall be the duty of the council to send a copy of the order as soon as practicable to each registering authority for the purposes of the [1975 c. 76.] Local Land Charges Act 1975 within whose area any street or part of a street to which the order relates is situated.

(4) In this section "new street order", in relation to a council, means an order having effect by virtue of section 159 of the [1959 c. 25.] Highways Act 1959 or paragraph 22 of Schedule 24 to that Act so far as the order relates to the area of the council, and " street" has the same meaning as in that Act.

(5) In sub-paragraph (1) of the said paragraph 22 the words " so however that the appropriate authority may at any time revoke the order " shall cease to have effect.