{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m25-motorway-m25-junction-2-improvement-m25-to-a282-section-and-connecting-road-scheme-2004/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m25-motorway-m25-junction-2-improvement-m25-to-a282-section-and-connecting-road-scheme-2004/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2562",
  "legislation_title": "The M25 Motorway (M25 Junction 2 Improvement) (M25 to A282 Section and Connecting Road) Scheme 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m25-motorway-m25-junction-2-improvement-m25-to-a282-section-and-connecting-road-scheme-2004",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Secretary of State is authorised to provide for the use of traffic of Classes I and II of the classes of traffic set out in Schedule 4 to the Highways Act 1980—\n(a) a special road, which will be part of the motorway, along a route, forming two different lengths of carriageway of the A282 Trunk Road north of M25 Junction 2 at Dartford, being:\n(i) a length of the northbound carriageway starting at its junction with the motorway and proceeding northwards for 220 metres (the special road along this length being given the reference number 1 on the plan);\n(ii) a length of the southbound carriageway starting at its junction with the motorway and proceeding northwards for 135 metres (the special road along this length being given the reference number 2 on the plan),\n(b) a special road, which will be a connecting road, along a route for the purpose of connecting the existing westbound exit slip road of the A2 Trunk Road with the existing southbound entry connecting road of the motorway at Junction 2 at Dartford (the special road along this route being given the reference number 3 on the plan),\nall in the Borough of Dartford in the County of Kent.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2562/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:17:55.984529+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."
}