Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 1695

The A604 Catthorpe-Harwich Trunk Road (Kettering to Thrapston Section and Slip Roads) Order 1987

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1987 No. 1695

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The A604 Catthorpe-Harwich Trunk Road (Kettering to Thrapston Section and Slip Roads) Order 1987

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10, 41 and 106 of the Highways Act 1980^[1], and now vested in him^[2], and all other enabling powers:

    1.    The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct —


(a)  along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order (the highway along this route being in this Order referred to as "the main new trunk road"); and


(b)  along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order which connect the main new trunk road with other highways at the places stated in Schedule 2 (the highways along these routes being in this Order referred to as "the slip roads"),
shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.

    2.    The centre lines of the new highways are indicated by heavy black lines on the deposited plan.

    3.    The highway along the route described in Schedule 3 to this Order, indicated by narrow striped hatching on the deposited plan, shall become trunk road as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies Northamptonshire County Council that the new highways are open for through traffic.

    4.    The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new highways that —


(a)  where the highway is a highway maintainable at the public expense by a local highway authority, the part in question shall be maintained by that authority, and


(b)  where the highway is not a highway so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure or prescription, the Secretary of State shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question,
until, in either case, a date to be specified in a notice given by the Secretary of State to the highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the relevant route is opened for the purposes of through traffic.

    5.    The Secretary of State is authorised to construct the bridge specified in Schedule 4 to this Order as part of the main new trunk road.

    6.    In this Order—

    (1)  all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;

    (2)   


(i)  "the deposited plan" means the plan folio numbered HA 10/2E/259 marked "The A604 Catthorpe-Harwich Trunk Road (Kettering to Thrapston Section and Slip Roads) Order 1987", containing a key plan and a map bound together, signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;


(ii)  "the new highways" means the main new trunk road and the slip roads and "a new highway" means one of those highways;


(iii)  "the A604 Kettering-Huntingdon Road" means that length of the A604 between Kettering and Thrapston all in the County of Northamptonshire.

    7.    This Order shall come into force on 23rd October 1987 and may be cited as the A604 Catthorpe-Harwich Trunk Road (Kettering to Thrapston Section and Slip Roads) Order 1987.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

P. M. Hewitt

Regional Director East Midlands Region Department of Transport

21st September 1987

[1] 1980 c. 66. back

[2] S.I. 1981/238. back

Explanatory Note