Part I Public Roads
F1 Transitory provisions
12A Transitional power of Secretary of State as respects existing roads.
1
Without prejudice to section 5 of this Act, where the Secretary of State considers that it is necessary or expedient as a result of, or in connection with, the establishment of new local government areas on 1st April 1996—
a
that any existing road should become a trunk road; or
b
that any trunk road should cease to be a trunk road,
he may by order direct that the road shall become a trunk road or, as the case may be, shall cease to be a trunk road, as from such date as may be specified in that regard in the order.
2
Where an order under this section directs that a road shall cease to be a trunk road, it may also direct that—
a
as from the date specified in that regard in the order, the local roads authority for the area shall become the roads authority for the road; and
b
the authority shall enter the road in their list of public roads.
3
An order under this section may relate to one or more roads.
S. 12A-12F added (4.1.1995) by 1994 c. 39, s. 7(2), 38(2) (with s. 7(2)); S.I. 1994/2850 art. 3(a), Sch. 2