The A66 Trunk Road (Stainburn and Great Clifton Bypass) (De-Trunking) Order 1996

Made: 3rd June 1996

Coming into force: 21st June 1996

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 powers enabling him in that behalf: —

1

This Order may be cited as the A66 Trunk Road (Stainburn and Great Clifton) (De-Trunking) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 21st June 1996.

2

In this Order—

• (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 new trunk road” means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct referred to in article 2 of the A66 Trunk Road (Stainburn and Great Clifton Bypass) Order 1996[^f00003]:

• (iii) “the trunk road” means the Penrith— Middlesbrough Trunk Road (A66).

3

The length of the trunk road described in the Schedule to this Order shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as a classified road from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of Cumbria that the new trunk road is open for traffic.

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 situated between a point 420 metres east of the junction with the C2060 Park End Road and a point 376 metres west of its junction with the A595 at Chapel Brow, a distance of about 3.9 kilometres, and is shown by broad black dashes on the plan numbered HA/10/RPD/186 marked “The A66 Trunk Road (Stainburn and Great Clifton Bypass De-trunking) Order 1996”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the Department of Transport, Great Minster House, Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

R. R. Bineham — Northern Operations Director Highways Agency — 3rd June 1996

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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

[^f00003]: S.I. 1996/1429.