{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a205-trunk-road-hounslow-red-route-bus-lanes-traffic-order-1997/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a205-trunk-road-hounslow-red-route-bus-lanes-traffic-order-1997/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2402",
  "legislation_title": "The A205 Trunk Road (Hounslow) Red Route (Bus Lanes) Traffic Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/a205-trunk-road-hounslow-red-route-bus-lanes-traffic-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n(a) a reference to an article followed by a number is a reference to the article of this order so numbered;\n(b) causing includes permitting;\n(c) “carriageway” has the same meaning as in section 329(1) of the Highways Act 1980; and\n(d) “vehicle” includes part of a vehicle;\n(e) “bus”, “local bus”, “pedal cycle”, “taxi”, “bus lane”, “contra-flow” and “with-flow lane” have the meanings given in the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 1994;\n(f) “dial-a-ride bus” means a vehicle—\n(i) displaying so as to be conspicuous on the outside of the vehicle a logo in a form approved by or with the authority of the Traffic Director for London and containing the words “dial-a-ride”; and\n(ii) constructed or adapted for the carriage of disabled persons and their companions and which is being used to provide a service for the carriage of such persons;\n(g) “times of operation” means, in relation to a length of road specified in an item in column (2) of the table in the schedule, the times specified in that item in column (3) of that table;\n(h) “permitted vehicles” means, in relation to a length of road specified in an item in column (2) of the table in the schedule, the vehicles specified in that item in column (5) of that table;\n(i) an entry in column (3), (4) or (5) of an item in the table in the schedule to this order applies to that column in subsequent items in that schedule.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 66."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/1519."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2402/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:50:47.524324+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."
}