1.  This Order shall come into force on 14th April 1994 and may be cited as the A30 Trunk Road (Honiton to Exeter Improvement) (Detrunking) Order 1994.

2.  Those lengths of 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 the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of Devon that the new trunk roads are open for through traffic.

3.  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 purpose 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 HA10/2/SWM86, marked The A30 Trunk Road (Honiton to Exeter Improvement) (Detrunking) Order 1994—, signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;

(iii)“the new trunk roads” means the highways mentioned in article 1 of the A30 Trunk Road (Honiton to Exeter Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1994(1); and

(iv)“the trunk road” means the A30 Trunk Road.