1. The length of the Trunk Road described in the schedule to this Order and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan shall cease to be trunk road and shall be classified as classified road as from the date on which this Order comes into force.

2. In this Order-

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

(2) (i) "classified road" as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads but is a classified road for the purpose of every enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State and which does not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads;

(ii)"the deposited plan" means the plan numbered CSE209/1/26/01, marked "The A4 Trunk Road (Reading Eastern Boundary to Maidenhead Thicket) Detrunking Order 1993" signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Rom-ney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY; and

(iii)"the Trunk Road" means the London-Bristol Trunk Road (A4).

3. This Order shall come into force on 1st April 1993 and may be cited as the A4 Trunk Road (Reading Eastern Boundary to Maidenhead Thicket) Detrunking Order 1993.

THE SCHEDULELENGTH OF THE TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE TRUNK ROAD

The length of the Trunk Road ceasing to be trunk road is situated between the western side of its roundabout junction with the Wokingham Link A329(M) and the western side of its roundabout junction with the Maidenhead to Oxford Trunk Road (A423) and the Maidenhead Spur Motorway A423(M) (known as Maidenhead Thicket Roundabout), a distance of approximately 15 kilometres.