1. This Order may be cited as the A13 Trunk Road (A112 Prince Regent Lane Junction Improvement, Trunk Road and Slip Roads) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 2nd December 1999.

2. In this Order-

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

(2) (i) "the main new road" means the new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct as part of the trunk road along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order;

(ii)"the new trunk roads" means the main new road and the slip roads;

(iii)"the plan" means the plan numbered HA 10/PS/226, marked "The A13 Trunk Road (A112 Prince Regent Lane Junction Improvement, Trunk Road and Slip Roads) Order 1999", signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions deposited at the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Zone 2/c8 Ashdown House, Victoria Street, London SW1E 6DE;

(iv)"the slip roads" means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in Schedule 2 to this Order and which connect the main new road with other highways at the places stated in that Schedule; and

(v)"the trunk road" means the part of the A13 Trunk Road known as Newham Way.

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

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

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.

SCHEDULE 1ROUTE OF THE MAIN NEW ROAD

The route of the main new road (given the number 1 on the plan) is at Canning Town and Plaistow in the London Borough of Newham and is about 0.53 kilometres in length. It starts from a point 233 metres west of the junction of the trunk road with the A112 (Prince Regent Lane) and extends generally north-eastwards to end at a point 292 metres east of the said junction.

SCHEDULE 2ROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are as follows-

(1) Junction of the trunk road with the A112 (Prince Regent Lane).

• Three routes to connect the eastbound and westbound carriageways of the trunk road (including the main new road) with the A112 (Prince Regent Lane) as proposed to be improved at the junction of the trunk road with the A112 (Prince Regent Lane) (the slip roads along these routes being given the numbers 2, 3 and 4 on the plan).

(2) Tollgate Road Connections.

(a)A route from the westbound carriageway of the main new road to connect with Tollgate Road (the slip road along this route being given the number 5 on the plan), and

(b)A route from the slip road referred to at (a) above to connect with Tollgate Road and the A112 (Prince Regent Lane) (the slip road along this route being given the number 6 on the plan).