This Statutory Instrument has been published in substitution of the SI of the same title which was incorrectly numbered as S.I. 2015/651 and published online in error.
Statutory Instruments
2015 No. 376
Highways, England
The Appointment of a Strategic Highways Company Order 2015
Made
10th March 2015
Coming into force
1st April 2015
The Secretary of State for Transport makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1(1) and (2) and 2(1) to (3) of the Infrastructure Act 2015( 1 ).
Citation and commencement I1
1. This Order may be cited as the Appointment of a Strategic Highways Company Order 2015 and comes into force on 1st April 2015.
Appointment of a Strategic Highways Company I2
2. —(1) Highways England Company Limited, incorporated in England and Wales under company number 9346363, (“the company”) is appointed as a highway authority.
(2) The company is appointed in respect of an area consisting of the whole of England.
(3) The company is appointed as the highway authority for all highways within that area for which the Secretary of State for Transport was the highway authority immediately before this Order came into force, except for—
(a) the M6 Toll Road;
(b) the eastbound carriageway of the M48 motorway from the boundary with Wales to a point 400 metres east of the outer edge of the eastern abutment of the Aust Viaduct;
(c) the westbound carriageway of the M48 motorway from a point 500 metres east of the outer edge of the eastern abutment of the Aust Viaduct to the boundary with Wales;
(d) the eastbound carriageway of the M4 motorway from the boundary with Wales to a point 60 metres east of the Binn Wall and 140 metres north of the Severn Tunnel Air Shaft;
(e) the westbound carriageway of the M4 motorway from a point 60 metres east of the Binn Wall and 140 metres north of the Severn Tunnel Air Shaft to the boundary with Wales.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
John Hayes
Minister of State
Department for Transport
10th March 2015
2015 c.7 .