1Additional trunk roads and reorganisation of trunk road system
(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act, the roads specified in the First Schedule to this Act shall become trunk roads as from the first day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six.
(2)The Minister shall keep under review the national system of routes for through traffic in Great Britain, and if he is satisfied, after taking into consideration the requirements of local and national planning, including the requirements of agriculture, that it is expedient for the purpose of extending, improving or reorganising that system that any existing road, or any road proposed to be constructed by him, should become a trunk road, or that any trunk road should cease to be a trunk road, he may by order direct that that road shall become, or as the case may be shall cease to be, a trunk road as from such date as may be specified in that behalf in the order.
(3)Section two of the principal Act (which excludes from the roads that are trunk roads under that Act roads in London and roads in county boroughs) shall cease to have effect, except as respects roads in the City of London :
Provided that, without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section or to any order made under subsection (2) of this section, no road which was not a trunk road immediately before the commencement of this Act shall become a trunk road by virtue only of this subsection.
(4)Subject to the provisions of this Act, the principal Act shall apply in relation to roads which become or cease to be trunk roads by virtue of this section, or of any order made thereunder, as it applies in relation to roads becoming or ceasing to be trunk roads under that Act.