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Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 1451

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The A30 Trunk Road (Woodleigh Junction Slip Roads) Order 1999

Made

21st May 1999

Coming into force

10th June 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980(1) and now vested in him(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf:

1.  This Order may be cited as the A30 Trunk Road (Woodleigh Junction Slip Roads) Order 1999, and shall come into force on 10th June 1999.

2.  In this Order—

(a)all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;

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

(ii)“the plan” means the plan numbered HA 10/PS/208 marked “The A30 Trunk Road (Woodleigh Junction Slip Roads) Order 1999”, 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.

3.  The slip roads shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.

4.  The centre line of each of the new trunk roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.

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 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 traffic.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.

S. G. Rowsell

Divisional Director Highways Agency

21st May 1999.

THE SCHEDULERoutes of the Slip Roads

The routes of the slip roads are four routes to connect the existing A30 Trunk Road with the realigned C50 County Road at Woodleigh Junction in the County of Devon, by means of two roundabouts to be constructed as part of the improvement of the Woodleigh Junction. The slip roads along these routes being respectively given the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 on the plan.

(2)

S.I. 1981/238.