Statutory Instrument 1989 No. 1847

M4/Newport-Shrewsbury Trunk Road A4042 (Relief of Brynglas Tunnels and Malpas Road) Order 1989

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1989 No. 1847

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES

M4/Newport-Shrewsbury Trunk Road A4042 (Relief of Brynglas Tunnels and Malpas Road) Order 1989

The Secretary of State for Wales makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 10, 12, 41 and 106 of the Highways Act 1980^[1] and all of other enabling powers:-

    1.    The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in the Schedule to this Order shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.

    2.    The centre lines of the new trunk roads are indicated by a heavy black line on the plan in Schedule 1 of the deposited plan.

    3.    The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the routes of the new trunk roads 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, the 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 purpose of through traffic.

    4.    The Secretary of State is also authorised to construct as part of the new trunk roads, the bridges over the River Usk, the specifications of which are set out in Schedules 2 and 3 of the deposited plan.

    5.    In this Order:-

"the deposited plan" means the plan numbered HA 10/2 W072 marked the "M4/Newport-Shrewsbury Trunk Road A4042 (Relief of Brynglas Tunnels and Malpas Road) Order 1989" signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales and deposited at the Welsh Office Repository, Curran Embankment, Cardiff;

"the new trunk roads" means the highways mentioned in article 1 of this Order;"the trunk road" means the Newport-Shrewsbury Trunk Road (A4042).

    6.    This Order shall come into force on the 20th October 1989 and may be cited as the M4/Newport-Shrewsbury Trunk Road A4042 (Relief of Brynglas Tunnels and Malpas Road) Order 1989.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

H. R. Bollington

An Assistant Secretary Welsh Office

4th October 1989

[1] 1980 c. 66. back

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