1. This Order may be cited as the A49 Trunk Road in Shropshire (A49/A5 Preston Roundabout to A49/A41 Prees Heath Roundabout and A49/A41 Chester Road Roundabout to the County of Cheshire Border) (Detrunking) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.

2. In this Order—

(i) “the plan” means the plan, numbered HA10/PS/259, consisting of sheets 1–3 and marked “The A49 Trunk Road in Shropshire (A49/A5 Preston Roundabout to A49/A41 Prees Heath Roundabout and A49/A41 Chester Road Roundabout to the County of Cheshire Border) (Detrunking) Order 2002 ” signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, and deposited at DTLR Records Management Branch, Ashdown House, Sedlescombe Road North, St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN37 7GA.

(ii) “principal road” as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is a principal road for the purposes of enactments and instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads and is also classified for the purpose of every other enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State; and

(iii) “the trunk road” means the A49 Trunk Road.

3. The lengths of the trunk road described in the Schedule to this Order shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as a principal road from the date on which the order comes into force.

THE SCHEDULE Lengths of the trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road

The lengths of the trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road is situated in the Districts of Shrewsbury and Atcham and North Shropshire in the County of Shropshire between the A49/A5 Preston roundabout (marked “A” on the plan) and the A49/A41 Prees Heath roundabout (marked “B” on the plan), and the A49/A41 Chester Road roundabout (marked “C” on the plan) and the Cheshire County Council border (marked “D” on the plan) are shown by broad black dashes on the plan, and are approximately 29.6km in length.