The Leeds City Council (M1 Motorway Junction 46 Slip Road Connecting Road) Scheme 1992 Confirmation Instrument 1996

Statutory Instruments

1996 No. 72

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Leeds City Council (M1 Motorway Junction 46 Slip Road Connecting Road) Scheme 1992 Confirmation Instrument 1996

Made

22nd January 1996

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Instrument in exercise of the powers conferred by section 16 of the Highways Act 1980(1) and now vested in him(2) and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf:

1.  This Instrument may be cited as “the Leeds City Council (M1 Motorway Junction 46 Slip Road Connecting Road) Scheme 1992 Confirmation Instrument 1996” and shall come into force on the date on which notice that it has been confirmed is first published in accordance with paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the Highways Act 1980.

2.  The Leeds City Council (M1 Motorway Junction 46 Slip Road Connecting Road) Scheme 1992 (“the Scheme”) is hereby confirmed without modifications.

3.  The Scheme as confirmed is set out in the Schedule hereto and copies of the Scheme with its accompanying plans are deposited at the offices of the Department of Transport and at the offices of Leeds City Council, Legal Services Room 213, Civic Hall, Leeds LS1 1UR and at the offices of the City Engineer, 2nd Floor, Dudley House, 133 Albion Street, Leeds LS2 8JX.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Pamela Denham

Regional Director Government Office for the North East

22nd January 1996

THE SCHEDULE THE LEEDS CITY COUNCIL (M1 MOTORWAY JUNCTION 46 SLIP ROAD CONNECTING ROAD) SCHEME 1992

The Leeds City Council make this Scheme in exercise of their powers under Sections 16 and 17 of the Highways Act 1980, and of all other enabling powers:

1.  The Council are authorised to provide for the use of traffic of Classes I and II of the classes of traffic set out in Schedule 4 to the Highways Act 1980, a special road along the route described in the Schedule to this Scheme for the purpose of connecting the M1 Motorway with the classified road at the place stated in the Schedule to this Scheme.

2.  The centre line of the special road is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.

3.  In this Scheme;—

(a) All relevant distances are measured along the centre line of the relevant highway;

(b) (i) “the Council” means the Leeds City Council;

(ii) “the M1 Motorway” means the London to Leeds Motorway (M1);

(iii) “the special road” means the special road which the Council is authorised by this scheme to provide;

(iv) “the classified road” means the Hunslet Distributor which the Council propose to improve from a point 95 metres north—east of its junction with Jack Lane to its junction with Moor Road in pursuance of “The Leeds City Council (Leeds Inner Ring Road Stages 6 & 7 (A61) (Classified Road) (Side Roads) Order 1992”;

(v) “the deposited plan” means the plan marked “The Leeds City Council (M1 Motorway Junction 46 Slip Road Connecting Road) Scheme 1992”, sealed with the Common Seal of the Council and deposited at the offices of the Council, Chief Legal Officer, Room 213, Civic Hall, Leeds, LS1 1UR. A certified copy is also deposited at the Department of Transport, Government Office for the North East, Local Authority Orders, Wellbar House, Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4TD and “deposited plan” shall be construed accordingly.

4.  This Scheme may be cited as “The Leeds City Council (M1 Motorway Junction 46 Slip Road Connecting Road) Scheme 1992”.

THE SCHEDULE TO THE SCHEME ROUTE OF THE SPECIAL ROAD

Junction with The Leeds Inner Ring Road stages 6 & 7 (A61) at Leeds in West Yorkshire

A route to connect the southbound carriageway of the M1 Motorway at Junction 46 with the classified road.

THE COMMON SEAL of the LEEDS CITY COUNCIL was hereto affixed this Twenty—sixth day of November 1992 in the presence of

L.S.

Chairman of the Strategic Policy Committee

Chief Legal Officer

(1)

1980 c. 66.

(2)

SI 1981/238.