SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7 Highways, Road Traffic and Transport

Part I Highways

The Highways Act 1980 (c. 66)

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(1)

Section 1 of the Highways Act 1980 (which makes general provision for determining the highway authority) is amended as follows.

(2)

After subsection (3) insert—

“(3A)

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.”

(3)

After subsection (4) add—

“(5)

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.”