1. This Order may be cited as the A41 London to Birkenhead Trunk Road (Hertfordshire) (Detrunking) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st April 2004.

2. In this Order—

(i) “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

(ii) “the trunk road” means the A41 London to Birkenhead Trunk Road (A41).

3. The length 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 for which Hertfordshire County Council shall become highway authority from the date this Order comes into force.

THE SCHEDULE LENGTH OF THE TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE A TRUNK ROAD

The length of trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road is situated in Hertfordshire between the boundary with Buckinghamshire and the end of the west facing slip roads of the A41/A4251 Akeman Street Interchange (the “Twist”), some 150m west of where the trunk road crosses Oddy Hill, near Tring in the north, including:

• parts of the eastbound off slip road and the westbound on slip road leading to and from the Tring Hill Interchange, up to the boundary of the Counties of Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire;

• the westbound off and eastbound on slip roads at the Tring Hill Interchange, south west of Tring; all, if any, parallel lay-bys and cycle tracks

• and is shown by broad black dashes on the site plans 1 and 2 comprised in plan folio numbered HA 10/TD/003 and marked “The A41 London to Birkenhead Trunk Road (Hertfordshire) (Detrunking) Order 2003” signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at DfT Records Management Branch, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA.