265 Transfer of property and liabilities upon a highway becoming or ceasing to be a trunk road

Transfer of property and liabilities on change of status of highway etc

265  Transfer of property and liabilities upon a highway becoming or ceasing to be a trunk road

(1)     Where a highway becomes a trunk road, then, subject to the provisions of this section, as from the date on which the highway becomes a trunk road (“the operative date”), there are transferred to the Minister [or the strategic highways company, whichever is highway authority for the trunk road,] by virtue of this section—

(a)     the highway, in so far as, immediately before the operative date, it was vested in the former highway authority,

(b)     the property mentioned in subsection (3) below, in so far as, immediately before the operative date, it was vested—

(i)     in the former highway authority for the purposes of their functions in relation to the highway, or

(ii)     in a council for the purposes of functions in relation to the highway under any enactment to which this section applies, and

(c)     all liabilities incurred by any such authority or council for the purposes of their functions in relation to the highway and not discharged before the operative date, other than loans and loan charges,

and

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