10 General provision as to trunk roads
Highways Act 1980 (1980 c 66) | Legislation

Part II Trunk Roads, Classified Roads, Metropolitan Roads, Special Roads

Trunk Roads

10  General provision as to trunk roads

(1)     Subject to the provisions of this section, all such highways and proposed highways as immediately before the commencement of this Act were trunk roads within the meaning of the Highways Act 1959 continue to be, and to be known as, trunk roads.

(2)     The Minister shall keep under review the national system of routes for through traffic in England and Wales, and if he is satisfied after taking into consideration the requirements of local and national planning, including the requirements of agriculture, that it is expedient for the purpose of extending, improving or reorganising that system either—

(a)     that any highway [or any proposed highway—

(i)     to be constructed by the Minister [or a strategic highways company], or

(ii)     in relation to which the Minister has entered or proposes to enter into an agreement under section 38(3A),]

should become a trunk road, or

(b)     that any trunk road should cease to be a trunk

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