24(1)The Secretary of State shall certify points on Works Nos. 9E and 9F to which each of those works from their commencement shall be special roads.U.K.
(2)On the date certified by the Secretary of State as the date on which the roads forming the parts of those works from their commencement to those points have been completed and are open for public use, those roads shall become trunk roads and special roads for the exclusive use of traffic of Classes I and II of the classes of traffic specified in Schedule 4 to the M1Highways Act 1980 as if they had been provided by the Secretary of State in pursuance of a scheme made by him under section 16 of that Act—
(a)prescribing the route of those roads as the route for the special roads to be provided under the scheme;
(b)prescribing both those classes of traffic; and
(c)specifying that date as the date on which those special roads were to become trunk roads.
(3)The provisions of sub-paragraph (2) above shall be treated for the purposes of that Act as provisions of a scheme under that section.
(4)On the date certified in relation to any new highway under paragraph 18(1) above the road which is the highway shall be transferred to the Kent County Council.
(5)Where the construction of any part of the road forming Work No. 17 has been completed the Secretary of State may, if the part concerned was not a highway at the passing of this Act, certify a date on which it is to be transferred to that Council.
(6)In the case of any new road constructed by the Concessionaires in pursuance of this Schedule, other than one to which sub-paragraph (2), (4) or (5) above applies, the Secretary of State may certify a date on which that road is to be transferred to that Council.
(7)On the date certified in relation to any road or part of a road under sub-paragraph (5) or (6) above, that road or part of a road shall be transferred to that Council.
(8)Subject to paragraph 27(4)(b) below, following a transfer under sub-paragraph (4) or (7) above the road or part of a road transferred shall be treated as if it had been constructed by that Council in exercise of their powers under section 24(2) of the Highways Act 1980.
(9)The Secretary of State may classify any road proposed to be constructed which may be transferred to that Council under this paragraph in any manner in which, and for any purposes for which, he could under section 12(3) of that Act classify a proposed highway for which that Council are the highway authority.
(10)On the date of its transfer to that Council any road classified under sub-paragraph (9) above shall become a highway classified in the manner and for the purposes in question as if so classified under section 12(3) of that Act.
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