1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the A5 London to Holyhead Trunk Road (Nutts Lane Junction Improvement) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 19th July 2001.

(2) In this Order all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway.

2. The new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule to this Order, shall become a trunk road from the date when this Order comes into force.

3. The centre line of the new trunk road is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan numbered HA 10/PS/236, marked “The A5 London to Holyhead Trunk Road (Nutts Lane Junction Improvement) Order 2001”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, and deposited at DETR, Records Management Branch, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA.

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

(a) where the highway is 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 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 new trunk road is opened for traffic.

THE SCHEDULE ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD AT NUTTS LANE NEAR HINCKLEY

A new trunk road roundabout to connect the eastbound and westbound carriageway of the A5 with Nutts Lane. (The new trunk road being given the reference letters A and B on the site plan).