F50[47.—(1) A road authority or the Authority may make—

(a) a motorway scheme,

(b) a service area scheme,

(c) a busway scheme,

(d) a protected road scheme, or

(e) a protected road scheme amending a protected road scheme approved under section 49,

referred to in this Part as a “scheme”.]

(2) (a) A scheme under this section shall be in the prescribed form and shall (where appropriate) specify—

(i) the proposed motorway, busway F51[, protected road or service area] to which the scheme relates,

(ii) any land F52[or any substratum of land] which is proposed to be compulsorily acquired for the purposes of the proposed motorway, busway F51[, protected road or service area],

(iii) any rights proposed to be compulsorily acquired in relation to land for the purposes of the proposed motorway, busway F51[, protected road or service area],

(iv) any public and private rights of way proposed to be extinguished over the land referred to in subparagraphs (ii) and (iii),

(v) any land in respect of which it is proposed to prohibit, close, stop up, remove, alter, divert or restrict a means of direct access to or from the proposed motorway, busway F51[, protected road or service area],

(vi) any land used for a specified purpose in respect of which it is proposed to prohibit, close, stop up, remove, alter, divert or restrict a means of direct access to or from the proposed protected road,

(vii) any planning permissions for the development of land proposed to be revoked or modified and the extent of any such modification,

(viii) such other matters as may be prescribed from time to time by the Minister.

(b) The matters referred to in paragraph (a) shall (where appropriate) be described by reference to a map or maps.

(c) The land F52[or substratum of land] referred to in paragraph (a) (ii) and the rights in relation to land referred to in paragraph (a) (iii) shall include all land F52[substrata of land] and rights in relation to land necessary for or incidental to the construction or maintenance of a motorway, a busway or a protected road and all land F52[, substrata of land] or rights in relation to land required for access roads, ramps, toll facilities, service areas F53[(provided under a motorway or protected road scheme)] and maintenance depots.

(3) Where it is proposed to prohibit or restrict the use of a protected road or a particular part thereof by—

(a) specified types of traffic, or

(b) specified classes of vehicles, the protected road scheme shall specify the proposed prohibitions or restrictions.

(4) (a) Where in accordance with subsection (2) a scheme made by a road authority F53[or the Authority] specifies a planning permission which is proposed to be revoked, that planning permission shall stand suspended from the date of the making of the scheme until the Minister approves or refuses to approve the scheme under section 49 and if the scheme is approved the planning permission shall be revoked.

(b) Where in accordance with subsection (2) a scheme made by a road authority F53[or the Authority] specifies a planning permission which is proposed to be modified, that planning permission shall stand modified to such extent as is specified in the scheme from the date of the making of the scheme until the Minister approves or refuses to approve the scheme under section 49 and if the scheme is approved the planning permission shall be modified to such extent as is specified in the scheme as approved.

(c) A planning authority shall enter in F54[the register kept by it under section 7 of the Act of 2000] particulars of—

(i) the planning permissions proposed to be revoked or modified under a scheme made under this section and the extent of such modification,

(ii) the decision of the Minister under section 49 (3) insofar as it affects the planning permissions referred to in subparagraph (i).

(d) For the purposes of this section “planning permission” means a planning permission (which has not ceased to have effect in accordance with the provisions of the Act of 1982).