The A30 Trunk Road (Honiton to Exeter Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1994

1.  This Order shall come into force on 14th April 1994 and may be cited as the A30 Trunk Road (Honiton to Exeter Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1994.

2.  The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct

(a) along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order (the highway along this route being in this Order referred to as “the main new trunk road”), and

(b) along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order which connect the main new trunk road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule (the highway along these routes being in this Order referred to as “the slip roads”), shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.

3.  The centre lines of the new trunk roads are indicated by heavy black lines on the deposited plan.

4.  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.

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 plan numbered HA10/2/SWM85, marked “The A30 Trunk Road (Honiton to Exeter Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1994”, 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 road” means the main new trunk road and the slip roads; and

(iii) “the trunk road” means the A30 Trunk Road.

Signed by authority ofthe Secretary of State for Transport

S. T. McQuillan

Regional Director South West Region

Department of Transport

30th March 1994