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Section 14B: Orders of the Authority changing what are GLA roads.

Highways Act 1980 · 1980 c. 66View on legislation.gov.uk

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

The Mayor of London shall keep under review the system of highways and proposed highways in Greater London and the allocation of responsibility for that system between the different local highway authorities.

If the Mayor of London considers it expedient that—

any highway or proposed highway in Greater London, other than a trunk road, should become a GLA road, or
that any GLA road should cease to be such a road and should become a road for which the highway authority is a London borough council or the Common Council,

the Greater London Authority may by order direct that that highway or proposed highway shall become, or (as the case may be) that that road shall cease to be, a GLA road as from such date as may be specified in that behalf in the order.

Where an order under subsection (2) above directs that a highway or proposed highway shall become a GLA road, it shall become such a road as from the date specified in that behalf in the order.

Where an order under subsection (2) above directs that a GLA road shall cease to be such a road, then, as from the date specified in that behalf in the order, the road shall cease to be a GLA road and the following authority, that is to say—

where the road is situated in a London borough, the council for the London borough, and
where the road is situated in the City, the Common Council,

shall become the highway authority for the road.

An order under this section shall be of no effect unless—

it is made with the consent of the relevant highway authority; or
if that consent is refused, it is confirmed (with or without modification) by the Secretary of State.

For the purposes of subsection (5) above, the relevant highway authority is—

in the case of an order directing that a highway or proposed highway shall become a GLA road, the authority which is the highway authority for the highway or proposed highway; and
in the case of an order directing that a GLA road shall cease to be such a road, the authority which will become the highway authority for the road in consequence of the order.

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