Notice of opening of a special road
3. The notice required for the purposes of section 17(5) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 to be published by the traffic authority for a special road, declaring the date on which that road or part of it is open for use as a special road, shall, not less than 7 days before that date, be published in at least one local newspaper circulating in the area in which the special road or, as the case may be, the relevant part of it is situated and in the London Gazette.