Statutory Instrument 2006 No. 1417

The A1 Trunk Road (Al (M), A614 and B6045 Junction Improvement Blyth) Order 2006

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2006 No. 1417

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND

The A1 Trunk Road (Al (M), A614 and B6045 Junction Improvement Blyth) Order 2006

	Made	22nd May 2006
	Coming into force	2nd June 2006

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980[1] and now vested in him[2]:

    1.This Order may be cited as the A1 Trunk Road (A1(M), A614 and B6045 Junction Improvement Blyth) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 2nd June 2006

    2.In this Order—

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

    (2) —

(a) "the main new road" means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order;

(b) "the new trunk roads" means the main new road and the slip roads;

(c) "the plan" means the plan folio consisting of the key plan and the site plan, numbered HA/10/MP/046 and marked "A1 Trunk Road (A1(M), A614 and B6045 Junction Improvement Blyth) Order 2006", signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at ODPM-DfT Records Management Branch, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA;

(d) "the slip roads" means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order and which connect the A1 Trunk Road with other highways or proposed highways at the places stated in that Schedule; and

(e) "the A1 Trunk Road" means the existing London to Edinburgh Trunk Road (A1).

    3.The main new road and the slip roads shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.

    4.The centre line of each of the trunk roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.

    5.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 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 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 traffic.



Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport


I Scholey
A Divisional Director Highways Agency

22nd May 2006

SCHEDULE 1
ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW ROAD

The route of the main new road is about 410 metres in length, from a point on the Doncaster By-Pass approximately 455 metres north-west of the centre of Hilltop roundabout to a point where the existing Doncaster By-Pass meets with Hilltop Roundabout at Blyth in the County of Nottinghamshire.



SCHEDULE 2
ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are as follows:

Proposed Junction with the A1(M), A614 and B6045 at Hilltop roundabout near Blyth

(a) A route from the northbound carriageway of the main new road to a new roundabout which the Secretary of State proposes to construct on the west of Hilltop Roundabout near Blyth (the slip road along this route being given the number 2 on the plan), and

(b) A route from the new roundabout which the Secretary of State proposes to construct on the north of Hilltop Roundabout near Blyth to the southbound carriageway of the main new road (the slip road along this route being given the number 1 on the plan).

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Notes:

[1] 1980 c.66back

[2] SI 1981/238back

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ISBN 0 11 074624 4

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