Statutory Instruments
1996 No. 2158

HIGHWAYS, ENGLAND AND WALES
The M66 Motorway (Bury Easterly Bypass Northern Section) (Junction 2 Southbound Off-Slip) (Detrunking) Order 1996

Made
16th August 1996

Coming into force
13th September 1996

The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980(1), and now vested in him(2), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf: —

1.  This Order may be cited as The M66 Motorway (Bury Easterly Bypass Northern Section) (Junction 2 Southbound Off-Slip) (Detrunking) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 13th September 1996.

2.  In this Order —

(1)
“classified road”
as a classification for a highway means that the highway is not a principal road for the purpose of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State and which does not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads.

(2)
“the trunk road”
means the M66 Junction 2 Southbound off-slip road.

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 classified road from the date on which this Order comes into force.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

K A Lasbury
Director Northern Network Management Division Highways Agency
16th August 1996

(1)
1980 c. 66.

(2)
S.I. 1981/238.