1. This Order may be cited as the A595 Grizebeck to Chapel Brow Trunk Road (Parton to Lillyhall Improvement) Order 2006 and shall come into force on 18th August 2006.

2. In this Order—

(1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;

(2) (i) “the new main road” means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order;

(ii) “the new trunk road” means the main new road;

(iii) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA/10/MP/021 marked “The A595 Grizebeck to Chapel Brow Trunk Road (Parton to Lillyhall Improvement) Order 2006”, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at DfT Records Management, Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex, TN37 7GA.

3. The main new road shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.

4. The centre line of the new road is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.

5. 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 relevant route is opened for traffic.

SCHEDULE 1 Route of the New Main Road

The route of the new main road is about 5.29 kilometres in length, starting from a point on the existing A595 trunk road at Moresby in the County of Cumbria, 245m south of A595/U4009 junction proceeding in a generally northerly direction, to a point on the existing A595 trunk road 180m north of the A595/A596 junction.