1. This Order may be cited as the A66 Trunk Road (Stainburn and Great Clifton) (De-Trunking) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 21st June 1996.
2. In this Order—
(i)“classified road” as a classification for a highway,, means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State and which does not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads;
(ii)“the new trunk road” means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct referred to in article 2 of the A66 Trunk Road (Stainburn and Great Clifton Bypass) Order 1996(1):
(iii)“the trunk road” means the Penrith— Middlesbrough Trunk Road (A66).
3. The length of the trunk road described in the Schedule to this Order shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as a classified road from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of Cumbria that the new trunk road is open for traffic.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport
R. R. Bineham
Northern Operations Director Highways Agency
3rd June 1996