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Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997
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Stopping up and diversion of roads by Secretary of StateS
202 Roads affected by development: orders by Secretary of State.S
(1)The Secretary of State may by order authorise the stopping up or diversion of any road if he is satisfied that it is necessary to do so in order to enable development to be carried out—
(a)in accordance with planning permission granted under Part III [F1or section 242A], or
(b)by a government department.
(2)Such an order may make such provision as appears to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient for the construction or improvement of any other road.
(3)Such an order may direct that the other road so constructed or improved—
(a)shall be entered by the local roads authority in the list of public roads kept by them under section 1 of the M1Roads (Scotland) Act 1984, or
(b)shall be deemed for the purposes of that Act to have been constructed by the Secretary of State under section 19 of that Act and shall, on such date as may be specified in the order, become a trunk road within the meaning of that Act.
(4)Any order made under this section may contain such incidental and consequential provisions as appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or expedient, including in particular—
(a)provision for authorising the Secretary of State, or requiring any other authority or person specified in the order to pay, or to make contributions in respect of, the cost of doing any work provided for by the order or any increased expenditure to be incurred which is attributable to the doing of any such work;
(b)provision for the preservation of any rights of statutory undertakers in respect of any apparatus of theirs which immediately before the date of the order is under, in, on, over, along or across the road to which the order relates.
(5)An order may be made under this section authorising the stopping up or diversion of any road which is temporarily stopped up or diverted under any other enactment.
(6)This section is without prejudice to—
(a)any power conferred on the Secretary of State by any other enactment to authorise the stopping up or diversion of a road,
(b)section 3 of the M2Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947, or
(c)section 206(1)(a).
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F1Words in s. 202(1)(a) inserted (11.5.2006) by Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (Commencement No.2 and Consequential Provisions) (Scotland) Order 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/243), arts. 1(1), 4(7)
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