The Roads (Transitional Powers) (Scotland) Amendment Order 1995

Made: 19th December 1995

Laid before Parliament: 10th January 1996

Coming into force: 31st January 1996

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 12A, 12B and 143(1) of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, having considered it necessary or expedient as a result of, or in connection with, the establishment of new local government areas on 1st April 1996, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Roads (Transitional Powers) (Scotland) Amendment Order 1995 and shall come into force on 31st January 1996.

Amendment

2

• (1) The Roads (Transitional Powers) (Scotland) Order 1995[^f00002] shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

• (2) For article 4(1) and (2) there shall be substituted—

(1) It is directed that as from the specified date the proposed roads listed in Schedule 2 to this Order shall become trunk roads.

• (3) In Part I of Schedule 1 paragraph 15 shall be omitted and in Part II of that Schedule paragraphs 6 and 7 shall be omitted together with the corresponding entries in relation to the local roads authority.

• (4) In Schedule 2 there shall be omitted Part II and the words “Part I”.

Signed

James Douglas-Hamilton — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 19th December 1995

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Roads (Transitional Powers) (Scotland) Order 1995. That Order provided for a change in the status of certain roads consequential upon the establishment of new local government areas on 1st April 1996.

The amendments made by this Order will mean that—

• (i) the A819 road mentioned in paragraph 15 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the original order will not become a trunk road; and

• (ii) the A828 trunk road mentioned in paragraphs 6 and 7 of Part II of Schedule 1 will remain a trunk road and the proposed road mentioned in Part II of Schedule 2 to the original order will become part of the A828 trunk road on completion.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1984 c. 54; sections 12A and 12B were inserted by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 (c. 39), section 38(2).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1995/1476.