The London—Brighton Trunk Road (A23 Bolney Flyover Slip Roads) Order 1990

Made: 12th October 1990

Coming into force: 19th November 1990

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 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 RSE A23/2/65/2/10, marked “The London—Brighton Trunk Road (A23 Bolney Flyover Slip Roads) 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;

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

• (iii) “the Trunk Road” means the London—Brighton Trunk Road (A23).

5

This Order shall come into force on 19th November 1990 and may be cited as the London—Brighton Trunk Road (A23 Bolney Flyover Slip Roads) Order 1990.

THE SCHEDULE — ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is at Bolney in the County of West Sussex, from a point on the southbound carriageway of the Trunk Road 385 metres north of the centre point of the Bolney Flyover to the A272 (a distance of about 394 metres).

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

J. W. Fellows — Regional Director South East Region — Department of Transport — 12th October 1990

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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