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Part XIVU.K. Miscellaneous and Supplementary Provisions

Regulations, schemes, orders, etc.E+W

324 Regulations for procedure in connection with, and centre line of roads authorised etc. by, certain schemes and orders.E+W

(1)Subject to Schedule 1 to this Act, the Minister of Transport may make regulations for prescribing the procedure to be followed in connection with the making and confirmation of schemes under section 16 above and orders under sections 17 and 18 above.

(2)The Minister shall make regulations for securing that the centre line of—

(a)a special road authorised by a scheme under section 16 above,

(b)a proposed highway directed by an order under section 10 above to become a trunk road, or

(c)a new highway to be constructed in pursuance of an order under section 14 or 18 above,

is indicated on a map on such scale as may be prescribed by the regulations and for securing that any limits of deviation which apply in relation to the centre line of that road or highway or any part thereof by virtue of subsection (3) below are indicated or stated in such manner as may be prescribed by the regulations.

(3)Where any such scheme or order as is referred to in subsection (2) above so provides in relation to a road or highway to which it relates or any part thereof, being such a road or highway as is referred to in that subsection, the centre line of that road or highway or that part thereof, as the case may be, may deviate from the centre line as indicated on the map referred to in that subsection within such limits of deviation, not exceeding 55 yards on either side of the centre of that line, as may be specified in the scheme or order.