Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/part/II/crossheading/special-roads
Timestamp: 2018-01-20 19:31:43
Document Index: 463537225

Matched Legal Cases: ['art. 2', 'art. 6', 'art. 3', 'art. 3', 'art. 2', 'art. 6', 'art. 3', 'art. 2']

(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act, all such highways or proposed highways as immediately before the commencement of this Act were special roads, as being highways or proposed highways provided, or to be provided, in pursuance of a scheme made, or having effect as if made, under section 11 of the M1Highways Act 1959 (which section is replaced by subsections (3) to (10) below), continue to be, and to be known as, special roads.
[F1(3A)Subsection (3) is subject to section 33(4) of the Planning Act 2008 (exclusion of powers to make or confirm schemes in relation to highways for which development consent required).]
[F2(4)A reference in this Act to a special road authority is a reference to—
(b)in [F3any other case]of a road to be provided by a F4... highway authority, be made by that authority and confirmed by the Minister.
(10)A scheme under this section may be submitted to the Minister jointly by any two or moreF5... highway authorities, and any such scheme may determine which of those authorities shall be the special road authority for the special road or any part thereof, and may provide—
and in relation to a special road provided or to be provided in pursuance of such a scheme, or any part of such a roadF6....
F1S. 16(3A) inserted (1.3.2010) by Planning Act 2008 (c. 29), ss. 36, 241, Sch. 2 para. 24 (with s. 226); S.I. 2010/101, art. 2 (with art. 6)
F2S. 16(4) substituted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 13(2); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
F3Words in s. 16(6)(b) substituted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 13(3)(a); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
F4Word in s. 16(6)(b) omitted (5.3.2015) by virtue of Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 13(3)(b); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
F5Word in s. 16(10) omitted (5.3.2015) by virtue of Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 13(4)(a); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
F6Words in s. 16(10) omitted (5.3.2015) by virtue of Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 13(4)(b); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
(3)The Minister of Transport may by order amend the said Schedule 4 by varying the composition of any class of traffic specified therein or adding a further class of traffic to those so specified, F7. . .
[F8(4)An amending order may contain provision applying the amendments made by the order to existing schemes (whether made by the Minister or a local highway authority); and in the absence of such provision an amending order does not affect the classes of traffic prescribed in an existing scheme.
F7Words in s. 17(3) omitted (01.11.1991) by virtue of New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 20(1), (with ss. 25(2), 167(2)); S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3,Sch.
F8S. 17(4) inserted (01.11.1991) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 20(1); S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3,Sch.
(a)of statutory undertakers in respect of any apparatus of theirs which immediately before the date of the order is under, in, on, over, along or across the highway to be stopped up or diverted;. . . F10
(b)in [F11any other case ] of a special road provided or to be provided by aF12... highway authority, be made by that authority and confirmed by the Minister.
(8)In this section “local authority” means. . . F13 the Common Council and the council of a county, district, London borough, parish or community, and includes the parish meeting of a F14. . . parish not having a separate parish council.
F9S. 18(1A) inserted (1.3.2010) by Planning Act 2008 (c. 29), ss. 36, 241, Sch. 2 para. 25 (with s. 226); S.I. 2010/101, art. 2 (with art. 6)
F10S. 18(2)(b) and the word immediately preceding it repealed by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 41(1), 57(6), 58, Sch. 27 Pt. I
F11Words in s. 18(3)(b) substituted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 14(a); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
F12Word in s. 18(3)(b) omitted (5.3.2015) by virtue of Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 14(b); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
F13Words repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 102, Sch. 17.
F14Word in s. 18(8) repealed (8.11.1995) by 1995 c. 44, s. 1, Sch. 1 Pt. V Group2.
(1)A special road to be provided by the Minister[F15or a strategic highways company] in pursuance of a scheme under section 16 above shall, except so far as it is provided by means of the appropriation or transfer of a highway, become a trunk road on such date as may be specified in the scheme.
(2)A highway (not being a trunk road) which, by means of an order under section 18 above, is appropriated as, or as part of, a special road to be provided by the Minister[F16or a strategic highways company], and a highway which, by means of such an order, is transferred to the Minister[F16or a strategic highways company], shall become a trunk road on the date on which it is so appropriated or is so transferred, as the case may be.
F17[(3)Subsections (1) and (2) above have effect subject to any provision of the scheme under section 16 directing that the special road in question or any part of it shall not be a trunk road.
F15Words in s. 19(1) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 15; S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
F16Words in s. 19(2) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 15; S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
F17S. 19(3) added (01.11.1991) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 21(1); S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3, Sch.
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F18S. 20 repealed (1.1.1993) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 168(2), Sch.9 (with s. 25(2)); S.I. 1992/2984, art. 2(2), Sch.2