{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/east-midlands-gateway-rail-freight-interchange-and-highway-order-2016/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/east-midlands-gateway-rail-freight-interchange-and-highway-order-2016/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2016/17",
  "legislation_title": "The East Midlands Gateway Rail Freight Interchange and Highway Order 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/east-midlands-gateway-rail-freight-interchange-and-highway-order-2016",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Classification of roads",
  "text": "(1) The new roads described in Part 1 of Schedule 7 (new and diverted roads) are to be—\n(a) classified as set out in column (3) of Part 1 of Schedule 7 for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as such; and\n(b) provided for the use of the classes of traffic defined in Schedule 4 (classes of traffic for purposes of special roads) to the 1980 Act as set out in column (4) of Part 1 of Schedule 7.\n(2) From the date on which the undertaker notifies the Secretary of State that the new roads described in Part 1 of Schedule 7 have been completed and are open for through traffic—\n(a) the body set out in column (5) of Part 1 of Schedule 7 is the highway authority for those roads; and\n(b) the new roads identified as special roads in column (3) of Part 1 of Schedule 7 are classified as trunk roads for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as trunk roads.\n(3) The existing roads described in Part 2 of Schedule 7 (existing roads) are to cease to have the classification and be the responsibility of the relevant highway authority set out in column (3) of Part 2 of Schedule 7 and from the occurrence of the event set out in column (4) are to be—\n(a) classified as set out in column (5) of Part 2 of Schedule 7 for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as such;\n(b) provided for the use of the classes of traffic defined in Schedule 4 to the 1980 Act as set out in column (6) of Part 2 of Schedule 7; and\n(c) the responsibility of the relevant highway authority set out in column (7) of Part 2 of Schedule 7,\nas if such classification had been made under sections 10(2) and 12(3) of the 1980 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 16 in force at 2.2.2016, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/17/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:28:28.277601+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}