1. The new highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the route described in the Schedule 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 highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the new trunk road is opened for the purpose of through traffic.

4. In this Order, each measurement of distance is measured along the route of the relevant highway, and-

(i)"the deposited plan" means the plan numbered HA10/2-/N224 marked "The A1 Trunk Road (Brownieside Improvement) 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;

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

(iii)"the trunk road" means the London-Edinburgh-Thurso Trunk Road (A1).

5. This Order shall come into force on 16th January 1992 and may be cited as the A1 Trunk Road (Brownieside Improvement) Order 1991.

THE SCHEDULE

The route of the new trunk road is at Brownieside in the District of Alnwick and the Borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed in the County of Northumberland and is approximately 1.37 kilometres in length starting at a point on the trunk road 221 metres south of its junction with the C.47 (marked "A" on the deposited plan) going in a generally northerly direction to a point on the trunk road 608 metres north of Hallfalt Culvert (marked "B" on the deposited plan).