LegalizeThe A5148 Trunk Road (Wall Island Improvement) Order 1998
Made: 22nd January 1998
Coming into force: 12th February 1998
The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 19801 and now vested in him2, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf:—
1
- (1) This Order may be cited as the A5148 Trunk Road (Wall Island Improvement) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 12th February 1998.
- (2) In this Order all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway.
2
The new highway (in this Order referred to as “the new trunk road”) which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule to this Order shall become a trunk road from the date when this Order comes into force.
3
The centre line of the new trunk road is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan numbered HA 10/PS/200, marked “The A5148 Trunk Road (Wall Island Improvement) Order 1998”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and deposited at the Highways Agency, Project Services, Room 12/27, St. Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 0TE.
4
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 new trunk road is opened for traffic.
THE SCHEDULE — Route of the New Trunk Road
The route of the new trunk road is about 45 metres in length, starting from a point on the southern boundary (of the westbound carriageway) of the A5148 Trunk Road (which the Secretary of State proposes to improve) about 65 metres east of that carriageway’s junction with the existing Wall Island, and proceeding south-westwards to a point on the north-east side of a new roundabout (which the Secretary of State proposes to construct) at the southernmost junction of the A5 Trunk Road with the existing Wall Island, in the County of Staffordshire.
Signed
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Derek Oddy — Divisional Director Highways Agency — 22nd January 1998
Footnotes
S.I. 1981/238.
Reading this document does not replace reading the official text published on legislation.gov.uk. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We assume no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the conversion of the original CLML XML to this format.
This text is published under legislation.gov.uk's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence.
legislation.gov.uk
Open Government Licence v3.0 (attribution required)
© Crown and database right. Derived from content available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 from legislation.gov.uk.