# Highways Act 1980, Paragraph 1

Extent: E+W

All orders and regulations made, all directions, consents and notices given, and all building lines and improvement lines prescribed, with respect to a highway which becomes a trunk road, either by the former highway authority for the purposes of their functions with respect to that highway or by a council under any enactment to which section 265 of this Act applies, if they were in force immediately before the highway became a trunk road, have effect with respect thereto as if made, given or prescribed by the Ministeror a strategic highways company, whichever is highway authority for the trunk road; but nothing in this paragraph is to be taken as transferring to the Ministeror the company any liability not transferred toit by or under the said section 265.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/schedule/21/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980/schedule-21/paragraph-1
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