(1)The Secretary of State may by order authorise the stopping up or diversion of any [F1road] if he is satisfied that it is necessary to do so in order to enable development to be carried out in accordance with planning permission granted under Part III of this Act, [F2or by virtue of Schedule 32 to the M1Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980], or to be carried out by a government department.
[F3(2)Any order under this section may make such provision as appears to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient for the construction or improvement of any other road, and may direct that the other road so constructed or improved—
(a)shall be entered by the local roads authority in the list of public roads kept by them under section 1 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984; or
(b)shall be deemed for the purposes of that Act to have been constructed by him under section 19 thereof,
and in the case of a road so deemed, that it shall, on such date as may be specified in the order, become a trunk road within the meaning of that Act.]
(3)Any order made under this section may contain such incidental and consequential provisions as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient, including in particular—
(a)provision for authorising the Secretary of State, or requiring any other authority or person specified in the order—
(i)to pay, or to make contributions in respect of, the cost of doing any work provided for by the order or any increased expenditure to be incurred which is attributable to the doing of any such work; F4
(ii)
F4(b)provision for the preservation of any rights of statutory undertakers in respect of any apparatus of theirs which immediately before the date of the order is under, in, on, over, along or across the [F5road] to which the order relates.
(4)An order may be made under this section authorising the stopping up or diversion of any [F6road] which is temporarily stopped up or diverted under any other enactment.
(5)The provisions of this section shall have effect without prejudice to—
(a)any power conferred on the Secretary of State by any other enactment to authorise the stopping up or diversion of a [F6road];
(b)the provisions of section 3 of the M2Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947; or
(c)the provisions of section 203(1)(a) of this Act.
Textual Amendments
F1Word substituted by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 70(8)(a) (with s. 128(1))
F2Words inserted by Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980 (c. 65), Sch. 32 para 19(4)
F3S. 198(2) substituted by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 70(8)(b) (with s. 128(1))
F4S. 198(3)(a)(ii) and the word “or” immediately preceding that sub-paragraph repealed by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1)(3), Sch. 9 para. 70(8)(c)(i), Sch. 11 (with s. 128(1))
F5Word substituted by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 70(8)(c)(ii), Sch. 11 (with s. 128(1))
F6Word substituted by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 70(8)(d) (with s. 128(1))
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 198 extended by Mineral Workings Act 1951 (c. 60, SIF 86), s. 32 as substituted by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 41(1) (with ss. 128(1), 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 41(2))
C2S. 108(2), 117–119, 121, 138, 154(3), 170–172, 175, 181, 195(6), 198(3), 199(2), 202(3), 205, 211, 212, 214, 216–230, 233(7), 242, 259, 266(6)(b), 275(2), Sch. 8, Sch. 17 para. 1–3, Sch. 18 extended by Gas Act 1986 (c. 44, SIF 44:2), s. 67(1)(3), Sch. 7 para. 2(1)(xxv) (with Sch. 8 para. 33)
C3S. 198(3) amended by Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29, SIF 44:1), s. 112(1), Sch. 16 para. 2(7)(a)(9) (with s. 112(3), Sch. 17 paras. 33, 35(1))
C4Ss. 198(3), 199(2), 202(3) extended (1.3.1996) by 1995 c. 45, s. 16(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(1)(xix); S.I. 1996/218, art. 2
C5S. 198(3)(b) extended by Civil Aviation Act 1982 (c. 16), Sch. 2 para. 4
Marginal Citations