{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a13-trunk-road-tower-hamlets-bus-lanes-traffic-order-1994/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a13-trunk-road-tower-hamlets-bus-lanes-traffic-order-1994/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2887",
  "legislation_title": "The A13 Trunk Road (Tower Hamlets) (Bus Lanes) Traffic Order 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a13-trunk-road-tower-hamlets-bus-lanes-traffic-order-1994",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation of references to a bus lane, a length of road and associated expressions",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, “bus lane” means the area bounded by–\n(a) the relevant edge of the carriageway of a length of road specified in the Schedule; and\n(b) a traffic sign consisting of a longitudinal single white line on the same side of the road as that edge (such a white line being referred to in this Order, in relation to a bus lane, as “the single white line”);\nand extending along the whole of that length of road.\n(2) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (1) above, where the single white line marking the boundary of a bus lane is broken by a gap opposite and adjacent to the junction of such a length of road with any other road or at a pedestrian crossing, the boundary shall nevertheless be regarded as continuing unbroken.\n(3) In this Order–\n(a) a reference to a length of road specified in the Schedule is a reference to a length of road described in a single paragraph of the Schedule;\n(b) a reference to the relevant edge of the carriageway, in relation to a length of road described in a paragraph of the Schedule, is a reference to the edge on the side of the road indicated by the Schedule; and\n(c) a reference to an adjacent part of the road, in relation to a bus lane, is a reference to an area that is not within the bus lane but is within the carriageway of the length of road which comprises the bus lane.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2887/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:23:25.667069+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}