1. 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 principal road as from the date on which this Order comes into force.

2. In this Order-

(i)"principal road" as a classification for a highway, means that the highway is a principal road for the purposes of enactments or instruments which refer to highways classified as principal roads and is also classified for the purpose of every other enactment and instrument which refers to highways classified by the Secretary of State;

(ii)"the deposited plan" means the plan numbered MSE A2/6/65/2/1 marked "The A2 Trunk Road (Old Dover Road, Barham) 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; and

(iii)"the Trunk Road" means the London - Dover Trunk Road (A2).

3. This Order shall come into force on 31st December 1991 and may be cited as The A2 Trunk Road (Old Dover Road, Barham) Detrunking Order 1991.

THE SCHEDULELENGTH OF THE TRUNK ROAD CEASING TO BE TRUNK ROAD

The length of the Trunk Road ceasing to be a trunk road is the length of single carriageway known as the Old Dover Road, which runs alongside the southern side of the A2 Dover Road dual carriageway, between its junction with Gravel Castle Road and its junction with the slip road from the northbound carriageway of that dual carriageway (a distance of 1260 metres, measured along the route of that single carriageway).