The A21 Trunk Road (Tonbridge Bypass To Pembury Bypass Dualling Slip Roads) Order 1996

Made: 4th March 1996

Coming into force: 5th April 1996

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 an 41 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 A21 Trunk Road (Tonbridge Bypass to Pembury Bypass Dualling Slip Roads) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 5th April 1996.

2

In this Order—

• (i) “the main new road” means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule to “The A21 Trunk Road (Tonbridge Bypass to Pembury Bypass Dualling Slip Roads) Order 1996[^f00003];”

• (ii) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA 10/1/SWM/124 marked “The A21 Trunk Road (Tonbridge Bypass to Pembury Bypass Dualling Slip Roads) Order 1996”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at the Department of Transport, Great Minster House, 76 Marsham Street, London SW1P 4DR;

• (iii) “the slip roads” means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes decribed in the Schedule to this Order and which connect the main new road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule; and

• (iv) “the trunk road” means the A21 Trunk Road.

3

The slip roads shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.

4

The centre line of each of the slip roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.

5

The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the slip roads that—

• (a) where the highway is maintainable at the public expense by a local highway authority, the part in question shall be maintained by that authority; and

• (b) where the highway is not so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure or prescription, the Secretary of State shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question,

until, in either case, a date to be specified in a notice by the Secretary of State to the highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the relevant route is opened for traffic.

THE SCHEDULE — ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROAD

The routes of the slip roads at Southborough in the Royal Borough of Tunbridge Wells in the County of Kent are as follows:—

JUNCTION WITH PEMBURY ROAD, TONBRIDGE ROAD AND LONGFIELD ROAD

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

D. Ward — Director Southern Operations Division Highways Authority — 4th March 1996

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1980 c. 66.

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

[^f00003]: S.I. 1996/802.