The A45 Trunk Road (Middle Bickenhill to Stonebridge) (De-Trunking) Order 1993

Made: 3rd September 1993

Coming into force: 23rd September 1993

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 the Trunk Road described in the Schedule to this Order and shown by a dotted line and marked A 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 Warwickshire and Metropolitan Borough of Solihull that the new trunk road is open for through traffic.

2

In this Order—

• (a) “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;

• (b) “the deposited plan” means the plan contained in the plan folio numbered HA10/2WM/163 marked “The A45 Trunk Road”(Middle Bickenhill to Stonebridge) (De-Trunking) Order 1993 signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Room AG23, 43 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 3PY;

• (c) “the new trunk road” means the highway to be provided by the Secretary of State in pursuance of the A45/A452 Trunk Roads (Stonebridge Grade Separation) Order 1993;

• (d) “the Trunk Road” means the Birmingham–Upper Heyford Trunk Road.

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This Order shall come into force on 23rd September 1993 and may be cited as the A45 Trunk Road (Middle Bickenhill to Stonebridge) (De-Trunking) Order 1993.

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 the length of westbound carriageway between a point 80m west of its junction with public footpath No. M107 and a point 40m east of its junction with public footpath No. M114. A total distance of 0.86 kilometres measured along the route of that carriageway.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

D. Ritchie — Regional Director West Midlands Region — Department of Transport — 3rd September 1993

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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