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Statutory Instrument 1988 No. 254

The Chester-Bangor Trunk Road (A55) (Travellers' Inn Improvement) Order 1988

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1988 No. 254

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Chester-Bangor Trunk Road (A55) (Travellers' Inn Improvement) Order 1988

Made5th February 1988
Coming into force16th March 1988

    The Secretary of State for Wales makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10, 12 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980[1] and of all other enabling powers:—
        1.    The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 1 to this Order shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.
        2.    The centre lines of the new trunk roads are indicated by heavy black lines on the deposited plan.
        3.    The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new trunk roads that—
       (a) where the highway is a highway maintainable at the public expense by a local highway authority, the part in question shall be maintained by that authority; and
       (b) where the highway is not a highway so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure, or prescription, the Secretary of State shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question, until, in either case, a date to be specified in a notice given by the Secretary of State to the highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the relevant route is opened for the purpose of through traffic.
        4.    The length of trunk road described in Schedule 2 to this Order and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as an unclassified road as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of Clwyd that the new trunk roads are open for through traffic.
        5.    In this Order:—

        (1)  All measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway.

        (2)  
      (i)  "the plan"
    		means the plan numbered HA10/2-WO58 marked "The Chester—Bangor Trunk Road (A55) (Travellers' Inn Improvement) Order 1988."
      (ii)  "the new trunk roads"
    		means the highways mentioned in article 1 of this Order and "a new trunk road" means one of those highways.
      (iii)  "the trunk road"
    		means the Chester—Bangor Trunk Road (A55).

        6.    This Order shall come into force on 16th March 1988 and may be cited as the Chester—Bangor Trunk Road (A55) (Travellers' Inn Improvement) Order 1988.


Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

G. Mercer

Director of Highways, Welsh Office

5th February 1988




Notes:

[1] 1980 c. 66.

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