1. This order may be cited as the A303 Trunk Road (Sparkford To Ilchester Improvement And Slip Roads) (Detrunking) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 17th May 1996.
2. In this Order—
(i)“classified road” 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 principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State and which does not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads;
(ii)“the new trunk roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct referred to in article 2 (ii) of the A303 Trunk Road (Sparkford To Ilchester Improvement And Slip Roads) Order 1996(1);
(iii)“principal road” as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is a principal road for the purposes of enactments and instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads and is also classified for the purpose of every other enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State; and
(iv)“the trunk road” means the A303 Trunk Road.
3. The lengths of the trunk road described in the Schedule to this Order shall cease to be trunk road. The length given the reference letter A shall be classified as a classified road and the length given the reference letter D shall be classified as a principal road as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the Somerset County Council that the new trunk roads are open for traffic.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
D W Ward
Director Southern Operations Division Road Programme Directorate Highways Agency
26th April 1996