The A249 Iwade Bypass (Detrunking) Order 1992

Made: 24th February 1992

Coming into force: 27th March 1992

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(b), and of all other enabling powers:

1

The length of the 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 Kent that the new trunk roads are open for through traffic.

2

In this Order–

• (1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the trunk road;

• (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 RSE A249/2/65/2/5 marked “The A249 Iwade Bypass (Detrunking) Order 1992” signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;

• (iii) “the new trunk roads” means the highways mentioned in article 1 of The A249 Iwade Bypass Order 1992[^f00003];

• (iv) “the trunk road” means the A249 Trunk Road.

3

This Order shall come into force on 27th March 1992 and may be cited as the A249 Iwade Bypass (Detrunking) Order 1992.

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

The length of the trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road is at Bobbing and Kingsferry near Sittingbourne in the Borough of Swale, in the County of Kent, between a point approximately 820 metres north east of its junction with Key Street and a point approximately 150 metres west of Swale Halt railway station (a distance of about 5.4 kilometres).

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

J. W. Fellows — Regional Director, South East Region, — Department of Transport — 24th February 1992

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

[^f00003]: S.I. 1992/535.