1. The Secretary of State for Transport makes this Order in exercise of powers conferred by sections 10 and 12 of the Highways Act 1980(1), and now vested in him(2), and of all other enabling powers:

2. The length of the trunk road described in the Schedule to this Order and shown by broad striped hatching on the deposited plan, shall cease to be a trunk road and shall be classified as a classified road as from the date on which the Secretary of State notifies the County Council of Norfolk that the new trunk road referred to in article 1 of the A11 Trunk Road (Besthorpe to Wymondham Improvement and Slip Roads) Order 1991(3), is open for through traffic.

3. In this Order-

(1) All measurements of distance are measured along the route of the trunk road;

(2) (i) "classified road" as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is not a principal road for the purposes of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classifed 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 HA10/2E/311 marked The A11 Trunk Road (Besthorpe to Wymondham Improvement) Detrunking Order 1991 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 trunk road"means the A11 Trunk Road.

4. This Order shall come into force on 13th August 1991 and may be cited as the A11 Trunk Road (Besthorpe to Wymondham Improvement) Detrunking Order 1991.

SCHEDULELENGTH OF THE TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE A TRUNK ROAD

The length of the trunk road ceasing to be a trunk road is between a point 350 metres south west of its junction with the U78280 Station Road and, including, Tuttles Lane Roundabout, a distance of 6.9 kilometres.