PART 3 STREETS

11 Classification of roads
1 From the day on which the undertaker notifies Highways England that the roads described in Part 1 of Schedule 5 (classification of roads) are completed and open for traffic, those roads are to be classified as trunk roads for the purposes of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as trunk roads, and Highways England is to be highway authority.
2 On the day on which the road described in Part 2 of Schedule 5 is completed and open for traffic it is to be classified as the A1270.
3 On the day on which the road described in Part 4 of Schedule 5 is completed and open for traffic it is to be classified as the A140.
4 Each of the roads described in paragraphs (2) and (3), from the respective dates in those paragraphs, is to be classified—
(a) as a principal road for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as principal roads; and
(b) as a classified road for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as classified roads,
as if such classification had been made under section 12(3) of the 1980 Act.
5 On the day on which the road described in Part 2 of Schedule 5 is completed and open for traffic, the road described in Part 3 of Schedule 5—
(a) ceases to be classified as the B1149; and
(b) is to be classified as the A1270 and is to be classified—
(i) as a principal road for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as principal roads; and
(ii) as a classified road for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as classified roads,
as if such classification had been made under section 12(3) of the 1980 Act.
6 On the day on which the road described in Part 5 of Schedule 5 is completed and open for traffic—
(a) the road described in Part 6 of Schedule 5 ceases to be classified as the C829; and
(b) that road and the road described in Part 6 of Schedule 5, are together to be classified as the A1194 and are both to be classified—
(i) as a principal road for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as principal roads; and
(ii) as a classified road for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as classified roads,
as if such classification had been made under section 12(3) of the 1980 Act.