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

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

3. The Secretary of State directs as repects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any 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, a date to be specified in a notice given by the Secretary of State to the highway authority for that highway. That date will not be latter than the date on which the new trunk roads are open for the purpose of through traffic.

4. The lengths of highways described in Part I of Schedule 2 shall become a trunk road as from the date on which this Order comes into force.

5. The length of highway described in Part II of Schedule 2 shall become a trunk road as from a date to be specified in a notice to be given by the Secretary of State to the Cheshire County Council. The date specified will not be later than the date on which he has, pursuant to the side roads orders, carried out works of improvement to that length of highway and the length is open for through traffic.

In this Order

6.-(a) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;

(b)"the deposited plan" means the plan numbered HA 10/1 CNW311 marked "The Rainhill Stoops to Queensway Trunk Road (A568 Widnes Eastern Bypass Southern Extension) Order 1991", signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;

(c)"the side road orders" means the orders entitled "The Rainhill Stoops to Queensway Trunk Road (A568 Widnes Eastern Bypass) (Side Roads) Order 1991 and the Rainhill Stoops to Queensway Trunk Road (A568 Widnes Eastern Bypass Southern Extension) (Side Roads) Order 1991", each signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London;

(d)a reference to a Schedule followed by a number is a reference to the Schedule to this Order which bears that number.

7. This Order shall come into force on 12th December 1991 and may be cited as the Rainhill Stoops to Queensway Trunk Road (A568 Widnes Eastern Bypass Southern Extension) Order 1991.

SCHEDULE 1ROUTES OF THE NEW TRUNK ROADS

PART I

1. A route about 1.15 kilometres in length, from a point on the A562 (Ashley Way) 63 metres north east of the point where it passes under the Arpley-Garston Freight railway line, turning in a westerly and then southerly direction to a point 0.54 kilometres north of the Widnes-Runcorn Bridge, marked 5 on the deposited plan.

PART II

2. A route to the southern end of the northbound carriageway of the new trunk road, described in paragraph 1 above, from the northern end of the length of slip road described in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 (a distance of 0.17 kilometres); marked 4 on the deposited plan.

3. A route from the southern end of the southbound carriageway of the new trunk road, described in paragraph 1 above, from the northern end of the length of slip road described in paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 (a distance of 0.18 kilometres), marked 3 on the deposited plan.

SCHEDULE 2LENGTHS OF ROAD TO BECOME TRUNK ROAD

PART I

1. The slip road from Waterloo Road to the A533 (Queensway), from a point 115 metres south west of its junction with West Bank Street for a distance of 0.36 kilometres in a southerly direction, marked 1 on the deposited plan.

2. The slip road from the A533 (Queensway) to Waterloo Road from its junctions with the A533 to a point 130 metres south west of its junction with West Bank Street (a distance of 0.38 kilometres), marked 2 on the deposited plan.

PART II

3. A length of the A562 (Ashley Way) from the north side of the roundabout junction with A562 (Fiddlers Ferry Road) for a distance of 0.58 kilometres in a south westerly direction, indicated by a dotted line and marked 6 on the deposited plan.