Trunk Road T8 (Toome Bypass) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Trunk Road T8 (Toome Bypass) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 2001.

(2) In this Order “the map” means the drawing numbered 22/17/FP/DO marked “Trunk Road T8 (Toome Bypass) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000” copies of which have been deposited at the Department’s Roads Service offices, Headquarters, Room 2-31, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Belfast BT2 8GB; Northern Division, Divisional Headquarters, County Hall, Castlerock Road, Coleraine BT51 3HS, County Hall, 182 Galgorm Road, Ballymena BT42 1QG and Antrim Section Office, Crown Buildings, 20 Castle Street, Antrim BT41 4JE; Western Division, Magherafelt Section Office, 30 Station Road, Magherafelt BT45 5DN; at the offices of Antrim Borough Council, The Steeple, Antrim BT41 1BJ and Magherafelt District Council, Council Offices, 50 Ballyronan Road, Magherafelt BT45 6EN; and at the offices of Tidal, Toome House, Main Street, Toomebridge, Co Antrim BT41 3HS.

Direction

2.—(1) The new route shall become trunk road and be part of the Antrim-Cookstown Trunk Road T8.

(2) The length of road described in Part II of Schedule 1 shall cease to be trunk road.

Abandonment

3.—(1) The Department shall carry out such works as it considers necessary for the provision of alternative facilities for road traffic and on completion of the works the length of road described in Part III of Schedule 1 shall be abandoned.

(2) All existing cables, wires, mains, pipes or other apparatus placed along, across, over or under the abandoned length of road shall be retained.

(3) All existing rights as to the use or maintenance of such cables, wires, mains, pipes or other apparatus shall be preserved.

Stopping-up

4.—(1) The Department shall carry out such works as it considers necessary for the provision of alternative facilities for road traffic and on completion of the works:

(i)the road described in Part IV of Schedule 1 shall be stopped-up to vehicular traffic; and

(ii)the road described in Part V of Schedule 1 shall be stopped-up to road traffic.

(2) The Department shall carry out such works as it considers necessary to prevent or restrict to such extent as the Department thinks fit, access to the roads by road traffic.

Construction of Bridge

5.  The Department shall construct the bridge in the position and with the minimum dimensions both specified in Schedule 2 as part of the Toome Bypass.