Part I Highway Authorities and Agreements Between Authorities

Highway authorities

1 Highway authorities: general provision.

1

The Minister is the highway authority for—

a

any highway which is a trunk road;

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any special road provided by him;

b

any highway as respects which an order made by him under any enactment expressly provides that he is to be the highway authority for it but does not direct that the highway is to be a trunk road;

c

any highway (not falling within paragraph (a) above) transferred to him by an order under section 14 or 18 below;

d

any other highway being a highway constructed by him, except where by virtue of section 2, 4(3) or 5(2) below or by virtue of some other enactment a local highway authority are the highway authority for it or where by means of an order made under section 14 or 18 below the highway is transferred to a local highway authority.

2

Outside Greater London the council of a county F2or metropolitan district are the highway authority for all highways in the county F2or, as the case may be, the district, whether or not maintainable at the public expense, which are not highways for which under subsection (1) above the Minister is the highway authority.

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Transport for London is the highway authority for all GLA roads.

3

F4The council of a London borough or the Common Council are the highway authority for all highways in the borough or, as the case may be, in the City, whether or not maintainable at the public expense, which are not F5for the time being GLA roads or. . . F6 highways for which under subsection (1) above the Minister is the highway authority.

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In Wales the council of a county or county borough are the highway authority for all highways in the county or, as the case may be, the county borough, whether or not maintainable at the public expense, which are not highways for which the Minister is the highway authority under subsection (1) above.

4

Subsection (2) above is subject, as respects any highway outside Greater London for which the Minister is not the highway authority under subsection (1) above, to any provision of this Act, or of any order made under this or any other Act, by virtue of which a council other than the council of the county F8or, as the case may be, the metropolitan district in which the highway is situated are the highway authority therefor.

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Subsection (3A) above is subject to any provision of this Act, or of any order made under this or any other Act, by virtue of which a council other than the Welsh council for the area in which the highway is situated are the highway authority.