The Roads (Transitional Powers) (Scotland) Amendment Order 1996

Made: 29th February 1996

Laid before Parliament: 8th March 1996

Coming into force: 31st March 1996

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 12B 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 1996 and shall come into force on 31st March 1996.

Amendment

2

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

• (2) In Schedule 2 (Proposed roads to become trunk roads), at the end there shall be added—

(3) The proposed road to be constructed in terms of the Broomhill to Gaich Road Scheme promoted by Highland Regional Council and to form the Dulnain Bridge Bypass, from a point 125 metres or thereby south of the access to the Auchendean Hotel north of Broomhill on the A95 Granish-Kinveachy-Grantown on Spey-Keith-Banff Road in a generally north easterly direction via and including the new bridge over the River Dulnain to a point on the said A95 road 110 metres or thereby north east of the access to the property known as Glengynack at Gaich.

Signed

James Douglas-Hamilton — Minister of State, Scottish Office — 29th February 1996

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 on the establishment of new local government areas on 1st April 1996.

The amendment made by this Order will mean that the proposed road to form the A95 Dulnain Bridge Bypass will become a trunk road.

Footnotes

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

[^f00002]: S.I. 1995/1476; amended by S.I. 1995/3328.