{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980-gating-orders-england-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980-gating-orders-england-regulations-2006/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/537",
  "legislation_title": "The Highways Act 1980 (Gating Orders) (England) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980-gating-orders-england-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“the Act” means the Highways Act 1980;\n“communications provider” has the meaning given by section 405 of the Communications Act 2003;\n“fire and rescue authority” means a fire and rescue authority under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 ;\n“NHS trust or NHS foundation trust” means a National Health Service trust, Primary Care Trust or NHS foundation trust providing an emergency ambulance service;\n“relevant highway” means the highway which is the subject of a gating order or a proposal for a gating order (as the case may be); and\n“statutory undertaker” has the meaning given by section 98(6) of the Environmental Protection Act 1990.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2004 c. 21; as amended by section 32(1) of, and paragraph 10(1) and (2) of Schedule 2 to, the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 (c. 36)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1990 c. 43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/235",
      "affecting_title": "The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/537/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:36:22.693398+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."
}