1.  The new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order shall become a trunk road as from the date when this Order comes into force.

2.  The centre line of the new trunk road is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.

3.  The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new trunk road that-

(a)where the highway is a highway 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 a highway 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 the purpose of through traffic.

4.  The lengths of the Trunk Road described in Schedule 2 to this Order and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan shall cease to be trunk road. The length described in paragraph 1 of that Schedule shall be classified as a classified road as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of Wiltshire that the new trunk road is open for through traffic.

5.  In this Order:-

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

6.  This Order shall come into force on 4th September 1987 and may be cited as the West of Southampton-Bath Trunk Road A36 (Steeple Langford Bypass) Order 1987.

SCHEDULE 1ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is a route at Steeple Langford in the County of Wiltshire about 1.66 kilometres in length, starting at a point on the Trunk Road about 345 metres east of its junction with the private access road to Ballington Manor at Sheppards Bush, then going in a generally easterly direction to a point on the Trunk Road 460 metres east of its junction with Berwick Lane (U/C 5097).

SCHEDULE 2LENGTHS OF TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE TRUNK ROAD

The lengths of trunk road ceasing to be trunk road are those lengths of the West of Southampton-Bath Trunk Road (A36) which are situated in the vicinity of Steeple Langford in the District of Salisbury in the County of Wiltshire, and are as follows:-

1.  The length labelled "A" on the deposited plan from a point about 345 metres east of the existing Trunk Road junction with the private access road to Ballington Manor for a distance of about 1.37 km to a point about 210 metres east of the Trunk Road junction with Berwick Lane (U/C 5097).

2.  The length labelled "B" on the deposited plan from a point about 210 metres east of the Trunk Road junction with Berwick Lane (U/C 5097) for a distance of about 246 metres to a point about 456 metres east of the Trunk Road junction with Berwick Lane (U/C 5097).