1988 No. 1176
HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The A127 London—Southend Trunk Road (Rayleigh Weir Improvement) Slip Roads Order 1988
Made 30th June 1988
Coming into force 27th July 1988

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980, and now vested in him, and of all other enabling powers:
1980 c. 66.
S.I.1981/238.

1 The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in the Schedule to this Order which connect the Trunk Road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule (the highways along these routes being in this Order referred to as “the slip roads”) shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.
2 The centre lines of the slip roads are indicated by heavy black lines on the deposited plan.
3 The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the slip roads that
(a) where the highway is a highway maintainable at the public expense by a local highway authority, the part in question shall be maintained by that authority; and
(b) where the highway is not a highway so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure or prescription, the Secretary of State shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question,
until, in either case, a date to be specified in a notice given by the Secretary of State to the highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the relevant route is opened for the purpose of through traffic.
4 In this Order:—
(i) “the deposited plan”	means the plan numbered HA 10/2E 238 marked “The A127 London—Southend Trunk Road (Rayleigh Weir Improvement) Slip Roads Order 1988”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY; and
(ii) “the Trunk Road”	means the London—Southend Trunk Road (A127).
5 This Order shall come into force on 27th July 1988 and may be cited as the A127 London—Southend Trunk Road (Rayleigh Weir Improvement) Slip Roads Order 1988.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
G. D. Crane Regional Director Eastern Region Department of Transport 30th June 1988

THE SCHEDULE ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS
The routes of the slip roads are the following:—
Junction with the A129 Rayleigh Road/High Road, Rayleigh, at Rayleigh Weir
(a) Three routes to connect the eastbound and westbound carriageways of the Trunk Road with a new roundabout as proposed to be constructed as part of the principal road A129 (Rayleigh Road/High Road, Rayleigh) at Rayleigh Weir (the slip roads along these routes being given the reference numbers 1, 3 and 4 on the deposited plan); and
(b) One route to connect the new roundabout described at (a) above with the eastbound carriageway of the Trunk Road by means of a further length of new highway as proposed to be constructed between that roundabout and Brook Road (the slip road along this route being given the reference number 2 on the deposited plan).