1. The Folkestone-Honiton Trunk Road (A27 Brighton By-Pass and Slip Roads) Order 1984(3) (hereinafter referred to as "the principal order") is hereby varied as follows-

(a)for article 3 of the principal order is substituted the following article-

"3. The centre line of-

(a)the main new trunk road, insofar as it lies between its starting point and a point 2.45 kilometres generally north-east of that point, is shown by a heavy black line on the further deposited plan, and

(b)the remainder of the main new trunk road and each of the other new trunk roads is shown by a heavy black line on the deposited plan.";

(b)after sub-paragraph (i) in article 5(2) of the principal order is inserted the following sub-paragraph-

"(iA)"the further deposited plan" means the plan folio numbered RSE A27/8/65/2/15 marked "The Folkestone-Honiton Trunk Road (A27 Brighton By-Pass and Slip Roads) Order 1984, Variation Order 1991", containing one map, signed by authority of the Secretary of State and deposited at the Department of Transport, Romney House, 43 Marsham Street, London SW1P 3PY;";

(c)in paragraph (a) of Schedule 2 to the principal order, for the words "over Southwick Hill" are substituted the words-

• "via a 490 metre twin bore tunnel under Southwick Hill, crossing Mile Oak Road"; and

(d)that part of the heavy black line on the deposited plan, referred to in the principal order, which lies between the Trunk Road and a point 2.45 kilometres generally northeast of that road, shall be disregarded.

2. This Order shall come into force on 6th December 1991 and may be cited as the Folkestone-Honiton Trunk Road (A27 Brighton By-Pass and Slip Roads) Order 1984, Variation Order 1991.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order authorises an alteration in part of the route of the proposed Brighton Bypass. Construction of the bypass as a trunk road is authorised by the Folkestone-Honiton Trunk Road (A27 Brighton By-Pass and Slip Roads) Order 1984, which defines the route of the bypass and associated slip roads by descriptions in Schedule 2 and by reference to a plan deposited at the Department of Transport.

This Order varies that Order by inserting references to a further plan, also deposited at the Department of Transport, on which the altered section of the route is shown; by providing for the original plan to be disregarded in relation to the section of the route which is to be altered; and by amending the description of the route in Schedule 2 to the Order.