{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civic-government-scotland-act-1982/section-133",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civic-government-scotland-act-1982/section-133.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1982/45",
  "legislation_title": "Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civic-government-scotland-act-1982",
  "path": "section/133",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "133",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires—\n“enforcing authority” has the meaning given by section 61(9) of the Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 5)\n“local authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;\n“proper officer” shall be construed in accordance with section 235(3) of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;\n“public place” means any place (whether a thoroughfare or not) to which the public have unrestricted access and includes—\n(a) the doorways or entrances of premises abutting on any such place; and\n(b) any common passage, close, court, stair, garden or yard pertinent to any tenement or group of separately owned houses; and\n“public road”, “road” and “roads authority” have the same meanings as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;\n“vessel” means any kind of water-craft including a hovercraft within the meaning of the Hovercraft Act 1968 but not including a vessel in Her Majesty’s service.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 133 inserted (1.10.2006) by The Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (Consequential Modifications and Savings) Order 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/475), art. 1, sch. 1 para. 11(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 133: words in definition of “local authority” substituted (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 129(21); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Definition inserted by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156, Sch 9 para. 87(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1973 c. 65."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1968 c. 59."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1982/45/section/133",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:10:54.687186+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."
}