1. This Scheme may be cited as the M60 Motorway (Improvement Between Junctions 5 and 8) Connecting Roads Scheme 1999, and shall come into force on 18th October 1999.
2. In this Scheme:
(a)all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway or, as the case may be, to the soffit of the relevant bridge;
(b)(i)“connecting road” means a special road along a route described in Schedule 1 to this Scheme;
(ii)“the Motorway” means the M60 Motorway;
(iii)“the plan” means the plan numbered HA 16/1 CNW 355, marked “The M60 Motorway (Improvement Between Junctions 5 and 8) Connecting Roads Scheme 1999”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, and deposited at the Highways Agency, St. Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE; and
(iv)“the special roads” means each connecting road.
3. The Secretary of State is authorised to provide the special roads for the exclusive use of traffic of Classes I and II of the classes of traffic set out in Schedule 4 to the Highways Act 1980.
4. The centre line of each of the special roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.
5. Each of the special roads shall become a trunk road on the date when this Scheme comes into force.
6. The Secretary of State is authorised to construct—
(a)the bridge specified in Schedule 2 to this Scheme as part of the connecting roads respectively given the numbers 3 and 4 on the plan;
(b)the bridge specified in Schedule 3 to this Scheme as part of the connecting road given the number 4 on the plan; and
(c)the bridge specified in Schedule 4 to this Scheme as part of the connecting road given the number 2 on the plan.
Signed by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Derek Oddy
Divisional Director Highways Agency
21st September 1999