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Channel Tunnel Act 1987

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6(1)On the date on which this Act is passed the roads mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below 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 [1980 c. 66.] Highways Act 1980 as if the provision by him of special roads along the route of those roads had been authorised by a scheme made by the Secretary of State under section 16 of that Act—

(a)prescribing that route as the route for the special roads;

(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.

(2)The roads to which sub-paragraph (1) above applies are—

(a)so much of the roads forming Works Nos. 31 and 32 as lie, in the case of Work No. 31, between its commencement and a point on the road 690 metres from that commencement and, in the case of Work No. 32, between its commencement and a point on the road 875 metres from that commencement; and

(b)the slip roads forming or forming part of Works Nos. 34A and 34D.

(3)On the date on which this Act is passed the roads mentioned in sub-paragraph (4) below shall become trunk roads as if they had become so by virtue of an order under section 10(2) of the Highways Act 1980 specifying that date as the date on which they were to become trunk roads.

(4)Those roads are—

(a)such parts of the roads forming Works Nos. 31 and 32 as do not on that date become trunk roads and special roads by virtue of sub-paragraph (1) above;

(b)the roads forming Works Nos. 33, 34F, 44A and 44B; and

(c)the slip roads forming or forming part of Works Nos. 34B and 34E and the trunk road parts of Works Nos. 38A, 38B, 38C and 38D.

(5)The roads forming—

(a)in the case of each of Works Nos. 38A and 38C, the part from its commencement to a point certified by the Secretary of State for the purposes of sub-paragraph (4)(c) above; and

(b)in the case of each of Works Nos. 38B and 38D, the part from a point so certified to its termination;

shall be the trunk road parts of those works for those purposes.

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