{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m5-junction-10-development-consent-order-2025/article-14",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/795",
  "legislation_title": "The M5 Junction 10 Development Consent Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m5-junction-10-development-consent-order-2025",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Classification of roads, etc.",
  "text": "(1) The roads described in Part 1 (special roads) of Schedule 3 (classification of roads, etc.) are to be—\n(a) classified as special roads for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as special roads; and\n(b) provided for the use of traffic of Classes I and II of the classes of traffic set out in Schedule 4 to the 1980 Act.\n(2) On and after the date on which the undertaker notifies the Secretary of State that the roads described in Part 1 (special roads) of Schedule 3 have been completed and are open for traffic—\n(a) the strategic highway authority is the highway authority for those roads; and\n(b) they are classified as trunk roads for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as trunk roads but does not make provision for highways classified as special roads.\n(3) On and after the date on which the roads described in Part 2 (classified roads) of Schedule 3 are completed and open for traffic, they are to become classified roads for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to highways classified as classified roads as if such classification had been made under section 12(3) (general provision as to principal and classified roads) of the 1980 Act.\n(4) On and after the date on which the roads described in Part 3 (unclassified roads) of Schedule 3 are completed and open for traffic, they are to become unclassified roads for the purpose of any enactment or instrument which refers to unclassified roads.\n(5) On and after the date on which the roads described in Part 4 (speed limits) of Schedule 3 are open for traffic, no person is to drive any motor vehicle at a speed exceeding the limit in miles per hour specified in column (3) of that Part along the lengths of road specified in the corresponding row of column (2) of that Part.\n(6) On a date to be determined by the undertaker, the restrictions specified in column (3) of Part 5 (traffic regulation measures) of Schedule 3 are to apply to the lengths of road specified in the corresponding row of column (2) of that Part.\n(7) Unless otherwise agreed with the strategic highway authority, the public rights of way set out in Part 7 (public rights of way) of Schedule 3 and identified on the streets, rights of way and access plans are to be constructed by the undertaker in the specified locations and open for use on and after the date on which the authorised development is open for traffic and are to have the status described in column (2) of that Part.\n(8) On a date to be determined by the undertaker, the orders specified in column (3) of Part 6 (revocations and variations of existing traffic regulation orders) of Schedule 3 are to be varied or revoked as specified in the corresponding row of column (4) of that Part in respect of the lengths of roads specified in the corresponding row of column (2) of that Part.\n(9) The application of paragraphs (1) to (8) may be varied or revoked by any instrument made under any enactment which provides for the variation or revocation of such matters, including by an instrument made under the 1984 Act where the matter in question could have been included in an order made under that Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 14 in force at 25.6.2025, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 4 was amended by section 4 of, and paragraph 21(3) of Schedule 3 to, the Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988 (c. 54)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/795/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:13:57.234000+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."
}