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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-contracting-out-of-highway-functions-order-1999/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/1999/0110826973",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Highway Functions) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-authorities-contracting-out-of-highway-functions-order-1999",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to paragraph 5 below, functions conferred on a local highway authority as competent authority, by virtue of its being a highway authority for a highway, by or under any of the following provisions of the 1980 Act:\n(a) section 143(1) (competent authority’s power to give notice requiring removal of structures from highways); and\n(b) section 154(1), (1A) and (2) (competent authority’s power to give notice requiring removal of overhanging hedge, tree or shrub); and\n(c) section 185 (competent authority’s power to install etc. refuse or storage bins in streets).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 143(1)(a) was amended by section 8 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 154(1)(b) was amended by section 8 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 154(1A) was inserted by section 22(1) of, and Schedule 7 to, the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 185(3)(b) was amended by section 190 of, and Schedule 25 to, the Water Act 1989 (c. 15)."
    }
  ],
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  "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."
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