{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forth-and-tay-road-bridge-order-confirmation-acts-modification-order-1996/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forth-and-tay-road-bridge-order-confirmation-acts-modification-order-1996/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/749",
  "legislation_title": "The Forth and Tay Road Bridge Order Confirmation Acts (Modification) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/forth-and-tay-road-bridge-order-confirmation-acts-modification-order-1996",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Forth and Tay Road Bridge Order Confirmation Acts (Modification) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 1947 Act” means the Forth Road Bridge Order Confirmation Act 1947;\n“the 1950 Act” means the Forth Road Bridge Order Confirmation Act 1950;\n“the 1991 Act” means the Tay Road Bridge Order Confirmation Act 1991.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1947 c.iv. The 1947 Act was extended and applied and was also amended and repealed in part by the Forth Road Bridge Order Confirmation Act 1950 (c.xxiv), the Forth Road Bridge Order Confirmation Act 1958 (c.vi) and the Forth Road Bridge Order Confirmation Act 1961 (c.xxi)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1950 c.xxiv. The 1950 Act was repealed in part by the said Act of 1958."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1991 c.iv."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/749/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:48:02.669547+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."
}