1. This Order may be cited as the A1 Trunk Road (Tempsford Junction Improvements Slip Roads) Order 1999 and shall come into force on 19th March 1999.

2. For the purpose of connecting the trunk road with other highways, so as to effect junctions at the places stated in the Schedule to this Order, the Secretary of State is authorised to construct along the routes described in the said Schedule, new highways. Those new highways shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.

3. The centre line of each of the new slip roads is indicated by heavy black lines on the deposited plan.

4. In this Order:

(i)"the deposited plan" means the plan folio numbered HA10/RPD/190, marked "The A1 Trunk Road (Tempsford Junction Improvements Slip Roads) Order 1999", signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions and deposited at the Highways Agency, St Christopher House, Southwark Street, London SE1 OTE.

(ii)"the trunk road" means the A1 Trunk Road; and

(iii)"the new slip roads" means the new highways which the Secretary of State is authorised to construct by Article 2 of this Order.

THE SCHEDULEROUTES OF THE NEW SLIP ROADS

1. A route, numbered 1 on the deposited plan, which connects the southbound carriageway of the trunk road with a new classified road (as proposed to be constructed) at Tempsford in the County of Bedfordshire.

2. A route, numbered 2 on the deposited plan, which connects the southbound carriageway of the trunk road with a new classified road (as proposed to be constructed) at its tie-in with the C54 Little Barford Road at Tempsford in the County of Bedfordshire.