The Leicester—Great Yarmouth Trunk Road (A47)(Narborough Bypass) Order 1990

Made: 13th July 1990

Coming into force: 7th August 1990

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 42 of the Highways Act 1980[^f00001], and now vested in him[^f00002], and of all other enabling powers:

1

The new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule to this Order shall become a trunk road as from the date when this Order comes into force.

2

The centre line of the new trunk road is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.

3

The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of the new trunk road 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 purposes of through traffic.

4

In this Order:—

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

• (2)

• (i) “the deposited plan” means the plan numbered HA10/2E/232 marked “the Leicester—Great Yarmouth Trunk Road (A47) (Narborough Bypass) Order 1990” signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY; and

• (ii) “the new trunk road” means the highway mentioned in article 1 of this Order.

5

This Order shall come into force on 7th August 1990 and may be cited as the Leicester—Great Yarmouth Trunk Road (A47) (Narborough Bypass) Order 1990.

SCHEDULE — ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is a route at Narborough in the County of Norfolk and is 315 kilometres in length, starting at a point 150 metres east of the existing trunk road junction with B1153 then going in a generally southeasterly direction to rejoin the existing trunk road at a point 580 metres west of the Bench Mark at Stella’s Farm.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Peter Emms — Regional Director Eastern Region — Department of Transport — 13th July 1990

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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