19Access to public roads
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(1)Roads authority consent is not required for Forth Crossing works consisting of works to provide new, or to improve an existing, means of access to or from a public road.
(2)Ministers must, before beginning any such works—
(a)consult the local roads authority for the public road, and
(b)consider any representations by the authority on the carrying out of those works.