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# The A66 Trunk Road (Scotch Corner Junction to Violet Grange Farm) Order 2014

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2014 No. 2130
Highways, England
The A66 Trunk Road (Scotch Corner Junction to Violet Grange Farm) Order 2014
Made
21st July 2014
Coming into force
15th September 2014
The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 41 of the Highways Act 1980 and now vested in him and :

## 1 {#article-1}

This Order may be cited as The A66 Trunk Road (Scotch Corner Junction to Violet Grange Farm) Order 2014 and shall come into force on 15th September 2014.

## 2 {#article-2}

In this Order—
(1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway; and
(2) —
(a) “the main new road” means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule to this Order;
(b) “the new trunk roads” means the main new road and the new roundabout;
(c) “the plan” means the plan numbered HA 10/MP/115 marked “The A66 Trunk Road (Scotch Corner Junction to Violet Grange Farm) Order 2014”, 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 Document Deposit Service, Communities and Local Government, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA; and

## 3 {#article-3}

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

## 4 {#article-4}

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

## 5 {#article-5}

The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new trunk roads 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.

## THE SCHEDULE ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW ROAD {#schedule}

Article 2(2)(a)
The route of the main new road is about 335 metres in length, from a point with its junction with the existing A66 Trunk Road roundabout at Scotch Corner, in the County of North Yorkshire (marked “A” on the deposited plan), then going in a generally northerly direction to a new roundabout to be constructed east of Violet Grange Farm (marked “B” on the deposited plan).