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 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 until highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the relevant route is opened for the purposes of through traffic.

4. The Secretary of State is authorised to construct the bridges specified in Schedules 2, 3 and 4 to this Order as part of the new trunk road.

5. In this Order-

(i)"the deposited plan" means the plan numbered HA1O/EM 67 marked "The A16 Trunk Road (Spalding to Sutterton Improvement) Order 1991" signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SWIP 3PY;

(ii)"the new trunk road" means the highway mentioned in article 1 of this Order; and

(iii)"the trunk road" means the A16 Norman Cross-Grimsby Trunk Road.

6. This Order shall come into force on 28th March 1991 and may be cited as the Al6 Trunk Road (Spalding to Sutterton Improvement) Order 1991.

SCHEDULE 1ROUTE OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD

The route of the new trunk road is in Spalding, and in the Parishes of Pinchbeck, Surfleet and Sutterton, in the County of Lincolnshire, approximately 18.1 kilometres in length, starting at a point on the trunk road 245 metres due south of Luck's Bridge, to the south of Spalding. It proceeds in an easterly direction forming a roundabout junction with (A1073) Barrier Bank and then curves in a northerly direction to form roundabout junctions with (B1165) Low Road and (A151) Holbeach Road. lt then proceeds in a north-westerly direction and then in a northerly direction to a roundabout junction with (A17) Station Road just south-east of the former Algarkirk level crossing near Algarkirk.

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