1. This Order may be cited as the A1 Trunk Road (Elkesley Junctions Improvement) Order 2012 and shall come into force on 16th May 2012.

2. In this Order -�

(1) all measurements of distance are measured along the route of the relevant highway; and

(2) (a) "the new trunk roads" means the slip roads;

(b)"the plan" means the plan numbered HA/10/NOD/004 marked "The A1 Trunk Road (Elkesley Junctions Improvement) Order 2012", signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport and deposited at Document Deposit Service, Communities and Local Government, Floor 13 (IMD), Ashdown House, St Leonards on Sea, Hastings, East Sussex TN37 7GA; and

(c)"the slip roads" means the new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in the Schedule to this Order and which connect the A1 Trunk Road with other highways or proposed highways at the places stated in that Schedule.

3. The slip roads shall become trunk roads from the date when this Order comes into force.

4. The centre line of each of the new trunk roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the plan.

5. The Secretary of State directs as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of any of the new trunk roads that -�

(a)where the highway is maintainable at the public expense by a local highway authority, the part in question shall be maintained by that authority, and

(b)where the highway is not so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure or prescription, the Secretary of State shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question, until, in either case, a date to be specified in a notice given by the Secretary of State to the highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the relevant route is opened for traffic.

SCHEDULEROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

The routes of the slip roads are as follows:

(1) Proposed Junction at Elkesley, Nottinghamshire

(a)A route about 195 metres long to connect the southbound carriageway of the A1 Trunk Road at a point about 386 metres south-east of the Jockey Lane junction to a new roundabout which the Secretary of State proposes to construct about 268 metres south-east of the Jockey Lane entrance to The Gables and 275 metres south-east of the A1 Trunk Road Jockey Lane junction (the slip road along this route being given the number 1 on the plan), and

(b)A route about 30 metres long to connect the northbound carriageway of the A1 Trunk Road at a point about 57 metres west of the High Street link junction to the highway which the Secretary of State proposes to construct north of Coalpit Lane, Elkesley, Nottinghamshire at a point 45 metres north-west of the entrance to Top Farm, High Street, Elkesley and 111 metres north-east of the junction of Coalpit Lane with Headland Avenue (the slip road along this route being given the number 2 on the plan).

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This order authorises the construction of two new two-way slip roads linking the A1 Trunk Road with side roads which the Secretary of State proposes to build under a separate Side Roads Order. The new slip roads will be trunk roads. Together, the new slip roads and the new side roads will constitute a grade-separated (two-level) junction the construction of which will enable the Secretary of State to close the existing A1 junctions at Jockey Lane / Cross Lane and High Street / Coalpit Lane.