Part IVU.K. Construction and Improvement of Roads near Folkestone

35 The A20 improvement works.U.K.

(1)The Secretary of State may, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, construct the works specified in Part I of Schedule 4 to this Act (referred to below in this Act as the A20 improvement works).

(2)Part II of that Schedule shall have effect for conferring on the Secretary of State powers in relation to—

(a)the stopping up of highways and the extinguishment of rights of way over them; and

(b)temporary interference with highways;

for the purpose of or in connection with the construction of any of the A20 improvement works.

(3)Part III of that Schedule shall have effect—

(a)for treating highways constructed by the Secretary of State in pursuance of that Schedule as highways of the descriptions there specified;

(b)for transferring such of those highways as do not become trunk roads to the Kent County Council;

(c)for treating the construction of highways and other things done in pursuance of that Schedule as authorised under the provisions of the M1Highways Act 1980 there specified;

(d)for treating certain provisions of that Schedule as provisions of instruments made under that Act of the descriptions there specified; and

(e)for enabling traffic on any highway constructed in pursuance of that Schedule to be subject to regulation under the M2Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 as soon as it is open for public use.

(4)Subject to paragraph 2 of that Schedule (which gives the limits of deviation for the works and also permits deviation from the levels shown on the deposited sections), the A20 improvement works shall be constructed in the lines or situations shown on the deposited plans and in accordance with the levels shown on the deposited sections.

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