266 Transfer to Minister [or a strategic highways company] of privately maintainable bridges carrying trunk roads
Highways Act 1980 (1980 c 66) | Legislation

266  Transfer to Minister [or a strategic highways company] of privately maintainable bridges carrying trunk roads

(1)     Where a highway comprising a bridge to which this section applies becomes a trunk road, the bridge by which that highway is carried is, subject to subsection (2) below, transferred to the Minister [or a strategic highways company, whichever is highway authority for the trunk road (“the trunk road authority”),] by virtue of this section on the date on which the highway becomes a trunk road (“the transfer date”).

(2)     If on the transfer date a part of the highway carried by the bridge is not a trunk road, the bridge is not transferred to the [trunk road authority] by virtue of this section unless and until that part becomes a trunk road.

(3)     Where a bridge is transferred to the [trunk road authority] by virtue of this section, then, subject to subsection (4) below—

(a)     the bridge, including any building or structure comprised in it and the highway carried by it, vests by virtue of this section in the [authority] for all the estate or interest of the owners therein, and

(b)     any statutory provision in force, in relation to the bridge, for the

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