The London To Fishguard Trunk Road (A40) (Penblewin To Slebech Park Improvement) Order 2008

1.  The new highway which the Welsh Ministers propose to construct along the route described in Schedule 1 to this Order is to become a trunk road as from the date when this Order comes into force.

2.  The centre line of the new trunk road is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.

3.  The lengths of the trunk road described in Schedule 2 to this Order and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan shall cease to be trunk road and shall become a classified road or unclassified road as indicated in that Schedule, from the date on which the Welsh Ministers notify the Pembrokeshire County Council that they will become the highway authority responsible for those lengths of road.

4.  The Welsh Ministers are authorised to construct the new bridge specified in Schedule 3 to this Order as part of the improvements to the trunk road.

5.  In this Order:

• all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway;

• “the bridge plan” (“plan y bont”) means the plan numbered HA 10/2 NAFW 20 and marked “The London to Fishguard Trunk Road (A40) (Penblewin to Slebech Park Improvement) Order 2008 Schedule 3 -Specifications of bridge over navigable watercourse”, signed by authority of the Minister for the Economy and Transport and deposited at the Welsh Assembly Government, Record Storage and Retrieval Unit (RSRU), Neptune Point, Ocean Way, Cardiff;

• “the deposited plan” (“y plan a adneuwyd”) means the plan numbered HA10/2 NAFW 19 and marked “The London to Fishguard Trunk Road (A40) (Penblewin to Slebech Park Improvement) Order 2008”, signed by authority of the Minister for the Economy and Transport and deposited at the Welsh Assembly Government, Record Storage and Retrieval Unit (RSRU), Neptune Point, Ocean Way, Cardiff;

• “the trunk road” (“y gefnffordd”) means the London to Fishguard Trunk Road (A40); and

• “classified road” (“ffordd ddosbarthiadol”) 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 by the Welsh Ministers and which does not specifically refer to their classification as principal roads.

6.  This Order comes into force on 17 December 2008 The title to this Order is “The London to Fishguard Trunk Road (A40) (Penblewin to Slebech Park Improvement) Order 2008.”