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

2. The centre lines of the new trunk roads are indicated by a heavy black line on the plan in Schedule 1 of the deposited plan.

3. The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the routes of the new trunk roads 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, the 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 Secretary of State is also authorised to construct as part of the new trunk roads, the bridges over the River Usk, the specifications of which are set out in Schedules 2 and 3 of the deposited plan.

5. In this Order:-�

"the deposited plan" means the plan numbered HA 10/2 W072 marked the "M4/Newport-Shrewsbury Trunk Road A4042 (Relief of Brynglas Tunnels and Malpas Road) Order 1989" signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales and deposited at the Welsh Office Repository, Curran Embankment, Cardiff;

"the new trunk roads" means the highways mentioned in article 1 of this Order;"the trunk road" means the Newport-Shrewsbury Trunk Road (A4042).

6. This Order shall come into force on the 20th October 1989 and may be cited as the M4/Newport-Shrewsbury Trunk Road A4042 (Relief of Brynglas Tunnels and Malpas Road) Order 1989.

SCHEDULEROUTES OF THE NEW TRUNK ROADS

1. A route approximately 2.70 kilometres in length, starting on the trunk road near Llantarnam Hall, approximately 186 metres north of the junction of the trunk road, known as Malpas Road, and the unclassified Montgomery Road, and proceeding in an easterly and then southerly direction to a new roundabout at Brynglas including the said new roundabout on the west bank of the River Usk approximately 95 metres north of the centre line of the M4 motorway at the eastern end of the existing Brynglas Tunnels.

2. Two slip roads to connect the new Brynglas roundabout referred to in paragraph 1 above to the existing roundabout at the junction of the M4 motorway with the B4596 Caerleon Road, known as Caerleon Interchange. The slip roads comprise:-�

(1) The eastbound slip road which commences at the eastbound exit of the new Brynglas roundabout and extends for 1.03 kilometres to the eastbound entry of the Caerleon Interchange.

(2) The westbound slip road which commences at the westbound entry to the new Brynglas roundabout and extends for 1.01 kilometres to the westbound exit of the Caerleon Intersection.

The new trunk roads described in 1. and 2. above are in the Borough of Newport (with the exception of the northern most 780 metres which lie in the Borough of Torfaen) in the County of Gwent.