1. The new highway which the National Assembly for Wales proposes to construct along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order shall become a trunk road as from the date when this Order comes into force.
2. The centre line of the new trunk road is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.
3. The National Assembly for Wales directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new trunk road that:
a.where the highway is a highway maintainable at the public expense by the 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 National Assembly for Wales shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question.
4. The lengths of trunk road described in Schedule 2 to this Order and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan shall cease to be trunk road and shall be classified as classified roads as from the date on which the National Assembly for Wales notifies the County Council of Pembrokeshire that the new trunk road is open for through traffic.
5. In this Order
(1) All measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;
(2) “classified road” (“ffordd ddosbarthiadol”) as a classification for a highway means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classified as a principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the National Assembly for Wales and which do not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads;
“the trunk road” (“y gefnffordd”) means the St Clears – Pembroke Dock Trunk Road (A477);
“the new trunk road” (“y gefnffordd newydd”) means the highway mentioned in article 1 of this Order;
“the deposited plan” (“y plan a adneuwyd”) means the plan numbered HA10/2 NAFW 1 marked the St Clears-Pembroke Dock Trunk Road (A477) (Sageston-Redberth ByPass) Order 2000 signed by authority of the National Assembly for Wales and deposited at the National Assembly for Wales Repository, Curran Embankment, Cardiff.
6. This Order shall come into force on 17th May 2000 and may be cited as the St Clears – Pembroke Dock Trunk Road (A477) (Sageston – Redberth ByPass)Order 2000.
Signed on behalf of the Assembly Secretary for Environment
D.M. Timlin
Head of Roads Administration Division National Assembly for Wales
Dated the 28th April 2000