Trunk Roads Act 1946

3 Additional powers relating to one-way roads, cycle tracks etc.

(1) Where the Minister proposes to make an order under section one of this Act directing that any road shall become a trunk road and the Minister considers it expedient that that road, when it becomes a trunk road, should be used only for traffic passing in one direction, and that any other road, being a trunk road or a road which is to become a trunk road by virtue of the order should be used only for traffic passing in the other direction, then, without prejudice to the power of the Minister to make orders under section forty-six of the [20 & 21 Geo. 5. c. 43.] Road Traffic Act, 1930, the order under the said section one may make provision for restricting the use of those roads accordingly as from such date as may be specified in that behalf in the order, and thereupon the said provision shall have effect as if it were contained in an order made under subsection (2) of the said section forty-six, and the provisions of that section shall apply in relation thereto as they apply in relation to an order made under that subsection.

(2) Without prejudice to the powers of the Minister to improve trunk roads by the construction of cycle tracks and footpaths for use in connection therewith, or to provide such tracks or paths as part of any trunk road which he is authorised to construct, the power to make orders under section one of this Act directing that roads proposed to be constructed by the Minister shall become trunk roads may be exercised in relation to any such track or path proposed to be constructed by the Minister upon land separated by intervening land from the road in connection with which it is to be used ; and any reference in the principal Act or this Act to a trunk road shall be construed as including a reference to a cycle track or footpath to which any such order relates :

Provided that in the application of the Act of 1935 to any such track or path as aforesaid, section one of that Act (which relates to the adoption of standard widths) shall not apply, and subsection (1) of section two of that Act (which relates to the restriction of development along the frontages of roads) shall have effect as if for the reference in paragraph (b) thereof to land within two hundred and twenty feet from the middle of the road there were substituted a reference to land forming the site of the track or path.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that in calculating for the purposes of the Act of 1935 the middle of any trunk road in connection with which a cycle track or footpath is constructed, so much of the track or path as is separated from the road by any land not forming part of that road is to be disregarded.