1. This Scheme may be cited as the A1 Motorway (Leeming to Scotch Corner Connecting Roads) Scheme 2013 and shall come into force on 28th November 2013.

2. In this Scheme:

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

(2) —

(i) “connecting road” means a special road along a route described in Schedule 1 to this Scheme;

(ii) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA 16/MP/030, marked “The A1 Motorway (Leeming to Scotch Corner Connecting Roads) Scheme 2013”, comprising a plan folio cover, a location plan and a site plan, signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at ODPM-DfT Records Management Branch, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA; and

(iii) “the special roads” means each connecting road.

3. The Secretary of State is authorised to provide the special roads for the exclusive use of traffic of Classes I and II of the classes of traffic set out in Schedule 4 to the Highways Act 1980.

4. The centre line of each of the special roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.

5. Each of the special roads shall become a trunk road on the date when this Scheme comes into force.

SCHEDULE 1 ROUTES OF THE CONNECTING ROADS

The routes of the connecting roads are routes in the District of Richmondshire, in the County of North Yorkshire as follows:

(1) Junction at Scotch Corner

One route to connect the northbound carriageway of the A1 Motorway with a roundabout at the existing Scotch Corner Junction (south facing slip roads), (the special road along this route to be given the reference number 1 on the Plan in the deposited plan) and one route to connect the southbound carriageway of the A1 Motorway with a roundabout at the existing Scotch Corner Junction (south facing slip roads), (the special road along this route to be given the reference number 2 on the Plan in the deposited plan).