SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1E+WStrategic highways companies: consequential and supplemental amendments

PART 1 E+WHighways Act 1980

13(1)Section 16 (general provision as to special roads) is amended as follows.E+W

(2)For subsection (4) substitute—

“(4)A reference in this Act to a special road authority is a reference to—

(a)except where paragraph (b) or (c) applies, a highway authority authorised to provide a special road by means of—

(i)a scheme under this section, or

(ii)a scheme referred to in subsection (1);

(b)except where paragraph (c) applies, the highway authority determined to be the special road authority by a jointly submitted scheme under subsection (10);

(c)a strategic highways company, where the company is the highway authority for a special road by virtue of an appointment under Part 1 of the Infrastructure Act 2015.”

(3)In subsection (6)(b)—

(a)for “the case” substitute “ any other case ”;

(b)omit “local”.

(4)In subsection (10)—

(a)omit “local”;

(b)omit from “, references in this Act” to the end.