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Valid from 16/03/1996
(1)The Secretary of State shall manage and maintain—
(a)trunk roads;
(b)special roads provided by him; and
(c)any other road constructed by him under section 19 of this Act (or section 8 of the M1Development and Road Improvement Funds Act 1909) and not entered in a list of public roads by a local roads authority,
and for the purposes of such management and maintenance (and without prejudice to this subsection’s generality) he shall have power to reconstruct, alter, widen, improve or renew any such road or to determine the means by which the public right of passage over it, or over any part of it, may be exercised.
(2)The Secretary of State shall prepare and keep a list of roads which he is for the time being liable to manage and maintain under subsection (1) above; and the list shall, at the date of commencement of this section, comprise all roads which immediately prior to that date were managed and maintained by him.
(3)The list referred to in subsection (2) above shall be open for inspection free of charge at such reasonable times and places as the Secretary of state may determine.
(4)Every road maintainable by the Secretary of State under subsection (1) above shall vest in him for the purposes of his functions as roads authority; but such vesting shall not confer on him any heritable right in relation to a road.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 2(1) power to contract out functions of Secretary of State (16.3.1996) by S.I. 1996/878 art. 2, Sch. para. 5(a)
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