Trunk roads
12.—(1) On the date on which the roads comprised in Works Nos. 7U and 7V are open for public use those roads 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.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), any power under the 1984 Act to make an order or to give a direction with respect to the roads comprised in Works Nos. 7U and 7V shall be exercisable by the Secretary of State as if he were the traffic authority before that road is open for public use in any case where it appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient that the order or (as the case may be) the direction should have effect immediately the road becomes open for public use.
(3) The procedure otherwise applicable under the 1984 Act in relation to the making of any such order or the giving of any such direction shall apply in any such case with such modifications as the Secretary of State may determine; and he shall publish notice of these modifications in such manner as appears to him to be appropriate for bringing them to the notice of persons likely to be affected by the provisions of any such order or (as the case may be) by any such direction.