The A63 Trunk Road (Melton Grade Separated Junction And Slip Roads) Order 2003

1.  This Order may be cited as the A63 Trunk Road (Melton Grade Separated Junction and Slip Roads) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 29th March 2004.

2.  In this Order—

(1) all measurements of distance are measured along the routes of the relevant highways;

(2) In this Order—

(i) “the new trunk road” means the lengths of highway referred to in article 3 of this Order;

(ii) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA10/MP/005 marked “The A63 Trunk Road (Melton Grade Separated Junction and Slip Roads) Order 2003” signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the ODPM-DfT, Records Management Branch, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA;

(iii) “the trunk road” means the Liverpool-Leeds-Hull Trunk Road (A63).

3.  From the date when this Order comes into force the lengths of highway described in the Schedule to this Order shall become trunk roads.

4.  The centre line of the new trunk road 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 that 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 to traffic.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

David Harvey

Acting Divisional Director Highways Agency

23rd October 2003