The A420 Trunk Road (Majors Road Junction) Order 1998

Made: 17th April 1998

Coming into force: 8th May 1998

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions¹ makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980² and now vested in him, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf.

1

This Order may be cited as the A420 Trunk Road (Majors Road Junction) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 8th May 1998.

2

In this Order—

• (1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;

• (2)

• (i) “the new trunk road” means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule to this Order; and

• (ii) “the plan” the plan numbered HA10/PS/202, marked “The A420 Trunk Road (Majors Road Junction) Order 1998.”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and deposited at the Highways Agency, St Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE.

3

The new trunk road shall become a trunk road from the date when this Order comes into force.

4

The centre line of the new trunk road 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 the new trunk road 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 given 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.

SCHEDULE — ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is located at the northern end of the Shrivenham Bypass in the District of the Vale of White Horse in the County of Oxfordshire.

The route comprises 132 metres of highway forming a new roundabout together with western and northern approaches to the roundabout, 18 metres and 12 metres in length respectively.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Derek Oddy — Divisional Director Highways Agency — 17th April 1998

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