The (A17) King’s Lynn-Sleaford-Newark Trunk Road (Long Sutton-Sutton Bridge Bypass Detrunking) Order 1987

Made: 2nd March 1987

Coming into force: 1st April 1987

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], and of all other enabling powers:

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The length of Trunk Road described in the schedule 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 a classified road as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of Lincolnshire that the new trunk road is open for through traffic.

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In this Order—

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

• (2)

• (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 deposited plan” means the plan numbered HA10/EM 28 marked “The (A17) King’s Lynn-Sleaford-Newark Trunk Road (Long Sutton-Sutton Bridge Bypass Detrunking) Order 1987” signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;

• (iii) “the new trunk road” means the trunk road to be constructed by the Secretary of State in pursuance of the (A17) King’s Lynn-Sleaford-Newark Trunk Road (Long Sutton-Sutton Bridge Bypass) Order 1987; and

• (iv) “the Trunk Road” means the (A17) King’s Lynn-Sleaford-Newark Trunk Road.

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This Order shall come into force on 1st April 1987 and may be cited as the (A17) King’s Lynn-Sleaford-Newark Trunk Road (Long Sutton-Sutton Bridge Bypass Detrunking) Order 1987.

THE SCHEDULE — LENGTH OF TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE A TRUNK ROAD

The length of Trunk Road ceasing to be a trunk road is that length of the Trunk Road in the Parishes of Gedney, Long Sutton, Little Sutton and Sutton Bridge in the County of Lincolnshire which is situated between a point 50 metres east of its junction with Station Road, Gedney and a point 60 metres south-east of its junction with High Street at Sutton Bridge.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

P. M. Hewitt — Regional Director, East Midlands Region, — Department of Transport — 2nd March 1987

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1981/238.