Highways Act 1980

Metropolitan roads

15General provision as to metropolitan roads

(1)Subject to the provisions of this Act, all such highways and proposed highways as immediately before the commencement of this Act were metropolitan roads within the meaning of subsection (1) of section 29 of the [1969 c. 35.] Transport (London) Act 1969 (which subsection is replaced by subsection (2)(b) and (c) below) continue to be, and to be known as, metropolitan roads.

(2)References in any provision of this Act and in any other enactment to metropolitan roads are to be construed as references to—

(a)any highway or proposed highway that is for the time being a metropolitan road by virtue of subsection (1) above;

(b)any highway or proposed highway in Greater London that is for the time being classified under section 12(3) above as a principal road for the purposes of any enactment or instrument which refers to roads or highways classified by the Minister of Transport as principal roads; and

(c)any other highway or proposed highway in Greater London that is for the time being designated as a metropolitan road by an order under section 10 above directing that the highway shall cease to be a trunk road.

(3)A certificate by or on behalf of the Minister of Transport that any highway or proposed highway in Greater London is, or is not, for the time being classified as provided by subsection (2)(b) above, or within subsection (2)(a) above by virtue of a corresponding classification under section 27(2) of the [1966 c. 42.] Local Government Act 1966, shall be evidence of the fact stated and any such certificate may describe the highway or proposed highway in question by reference to a map.

(4)The Greater London Council shall prepare and maintain a list of, and a map showing, the highways and proposed highways which are for the time being metropolitan roads and shall deposit a copy of that list and of that map with each of the London borough councils and the Common Council; and the Greater London Council and each of those other authorities shall make that list and map or, as the case may be, the copies thereof so deposited with them, available for inspection by the public at all reasonable hours.

(5)The provisions of subsections (2) to (4) above are to be deemed for the purposes of section 84 of the [1963 c. 33.] London Government Act 1963 (which relates to the making of supplementary and transitional provision by order) to be included in that Act.