{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-eccles-extension-order-1996/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-eccles-extension-order-1996/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2714",
  "legislation_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Eccles Extension) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/greater-manchester-light-rapid-transit-system-eccles-extension-order-1996",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Power to construct temporary transit systems",
  "text": "(1) The undertaker may, if it considers it necessary or expedient in consequence of any works executed or proposed to be executed in a street along which an authorised street tramway is constructed—\n(a) remove or discontinue the operation of the authorised street tramway, and\n(b) lay, maintain and operate in or near to that street a temporary transit system in lieu of the authorised street tramway.\n(2) The powers conferred by this article may only be exercised with the consent of the highway authority but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.\n(3) The provisions of article 38 below shall apply in relation to temporary transit systems laid under this article as they apply in relation to authorised street tramways.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/1936",
      "affecting_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Ashton-under-Lyne Extension) Order 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1266",
      "affecting_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Airport Extension) Order 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/2587",
      "affecting_title": "The Transport for Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Second City Crossing) Order 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2016/1035",
      "affecting_title": "The Transport for Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Trafford Park Extension) Order 2016"
    },
    {
      "type": "applied",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/1327",
      "affecting_title": "The Greater Manchester (Light Rapid Transit System) (Trafford Depot) Order 2002"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2714/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:33:17.409589+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."
}