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The A21 Trunk Road (Lamberhurst Bypass Detrunking) Order 1996

S.I. 1996/1846 · Made 15 July 1996

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HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

Made 15th July 1996

Coming into force 1st August 1996

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980f1 and now vested in himf2, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf: —

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Footnotes

f1

1980 c. 66.

f2

S.I. 1981/238.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. 3Article 3
  4. Signature
  5. Schedule THELENGTH OF THE TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE A TRUNK ROAD

1

This Order may be cited as the A21 Trunk Road (Lamberhurst Bypass Detrunking) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st August 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 trunk road referred to in Article 2 of the A21 Trunk Road (Lamberhurst Bypass) Order 1996;f1 and
(iii)“the trunk road”means the A21 Trunk Road.

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 Kent County Council that the new trunk road is open for traffic.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

D. Ward

Director Southern Operations Division Highways Agency

15th July 1996

Schedule THELENGTH 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 the junction of the trunk road with Goudhurst Road (A262), north of Lamberhurst in the County of Kent and a point 145 metres southeast of its junction with The Down (B2169) south of Lamberhurst, and is shown by broad black dashes on the plan numbered HA10/1/SWM/128, marked “The A21 Trunk Road (Lamberhurst Bypass Detrunking) 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.