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The Appointment of a Strategic Highways Company Order 2015

S.I. 2015/376 · Made 10 March 2015 · Extends to England and Wales

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This Statutory Instrument has been published in substitution of the SI of the same title which was incorrectly numbered as S.I. 2015/651 and published online in error.

Highways, England

Made 10th March 2015

Coming into force 1st April 2015

The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and (2) and 2(1) to (3) of the Infrastructure Act 2015f1.

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2015 c.7.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Appointment of a Strategic Highways Company
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencementI1

This Order may be cited as the Appointment of a Strategic Highways Company Order 2015 and comes into force on 1st April 2015.

2Appointment of a Strategic Highways CompanyI1

(1)

F1National Highways Limited, incorporated in England and Wales under company number 9346363, (“the company”) is appointed as a highway authority.

(2)

The company is appointed in respect of an area consisting of the whole of England.

(3)

The company is appointed as the highway authority for all highways within that area for which the Secretary of State for Transport was the highway authority immediately before this Order came into force, except for—

(a)

the M6 Toll Road;

(b)

the eastbound carriageway of the M48 motorway from the boundary with Wales to a point 400 metres east of the outer edge of the eastern abutment of the Aust Viaduct;

(c)

the westbound carriageway of the M48 motorway from a point 500 metres east of the outer edge of the eastern abutment of the Aust Viaduct to the boundary with Wales;

(d)

the eastbound carriageway of the M4 motorway from the boundary with Wales to a point 60 metres east of the Binn Wall and 140 metres north of the Severn Tunnel Air Shaft;

(e)

the westbound carriageway of the M4 motorway from a point 60 metres east of the Binn Wall and 140 metres north of the Severn Tunnel Air Shaft to the boundary with Wales.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

John Hayes

Minister of State

Department for Transport

10th March 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order appoints Highways England Company Limited (Company No. 9346363), (“Highways England”), as a highway authority for all highways in England for which the Secretary of State for Transport was the highway authority immediately before this Order was made, except for the M6 Toll Road and the roads that form part of the Severn Crossings up to the border with Wales. Those highways not transferred to Highways England are currently operated under concession agreements and the Secretary of State for Transport remains the highway authority in respect of them. Under section 1(4) of the Infrastructure Act 2015, by virtue of this Order, Highways England is a strategic highways company.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.