1. The new highways which the Secretary of State proposes to construct along the routes described in the Schedule to this Order (the highways along these routes being in this Order referred to as "the slip roads"), shall become trunk roads as from the date when this Order comes into force.

2. The centre line of each of the slip roads is indicated by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.

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

(a)where the highway is a highway 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 a highway 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 the purpose of through traffic.

4. In this Order-�

(i)"the deposited plan" means the plan folio numbered PSE/O/A27/4E/65/2/3 marked "The A27 Trunk Road (Patching Junction Im provement Slip Roads) Order 1993" signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY, which folio contains a site plan marked "Junction at Clapham Common";

(ii)"the main new trunk road" means the highway along the route described in the Schedule to "The A27 Trunk Road (Patching Junction Improvement) Order 1993"(3) which is to be constructed as a trunk road by the Secretary of State in pursuance of that Order; and

(iii)"the trunk road" means the A27 Trunk Road.

5. This Order shall come into force on 25th June 1993 and may be cited as The A27 Trunk Road (Patching Junction Improvement Slip Roads) Order 1993.

THE SCHEDULEROUTES OF THE SLIP ROADS

Routes of the slip roads at Patching in the County of West Sussex are as follows:-�

1. JUNCTION OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD WITH THE TRUNK ROAD (KNOWN AS ARUNDEL ROAD) AND A280 LONGFURLONG-

(a)a route from the eastbound carriageway of the main new trunk road to the northern roundabout forming part of a junction to be constructed by the Secretary of State in pursuance of "The A27 Trunk Road (Patching Junction Improvement Side Roads) Order 199 "; the slip road along this route being given the reference number 1 on the site plan of the deposited plan; and

(b)a route from the said roundabout to the eastbound carriageway of the main new trunk road; the slip road along this route being given the reference number 2 on the site plan of the deposited plan.

2. JUNCTION OF THE NEW TRUNK ROAD WITH WATER LANE (A280), POT LANE AND TITNORE LANE

(a)a route from the westbound carriageway of the main new trunk road to the southern roudabout forming part of the said junction; the slip road along this route being given the reference number 3 on the site plan of the desposited plan; and

(b)a route from the said roundabout to the westbound carriageway of the main new trunk road; the slip road along this route being given the reference number 4 on the site plan of the deposited plan.