Highways Act 1980

10 E+W Where the Minister proposes to make a scheme under section 16 of this Act, or where a scheme under that section or section 106(3) of this Act is submitted to the Minister by a F1 ... highway authority, the Minister or that authority, as the case may be, shall publish in at least one local newspaper circulating in the area in which the special road, or, as the case may be, the site of the bridge or tunnel, to which the scheme relates is situated, and in the London Gazette, a notice—

(a) stating the general effect of the proposed scheme;

(b) naming a place in the said area where a copy of a draft of the scheme or of the scheme as submitted to the Minister, as the case may be, and of any map or plan referred to in it may be inspected by any person free of charge at all reasonable hours during a period specified in the notice, being a period of not less than 6 weeks from the date of the publication of the notice; and

(c) stating that, within the said period, any person may by notice to the Minister object to the making or confirmation of the scheme.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in Sch. 1 para. 10 omitted (5.3.2015) by virtue of Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 63(7); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)