3E+WAll contracts, deeds, bonds or agreements entered into or made by the former highway authority for a highway which becomes a trunk road, or by a council for the purposes of functions in relation to the highway under any enactment to which section 265 of this Act applies, and subsisting on the day on which the highway became a trunk road, have effect, in so far as they relate to the property and liabilities transferred to the Minister[F1or a strategic highways company] in respect of that highway, with the substitution of the Minister[F2or the company] for the authority or council and may be enforced by or against the Minister[F2or the company] accordingly.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 21 para. 3 inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 67(3)(a); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
F2Words in Sch. 21 para. 3 inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 67(3)(b); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)