{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980/section-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980/section-11.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/66",
  "legislation_title": "Highways Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980",
  "path": "section/11",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Local and private Act functions with respect to trunk roads.",
  "text": "(1) As from the date when a highway becomes a trunk road, any functions of construction, maintenance or improvement exercisable as respects that highway by a council under a local or private Act are to be deemed to have become exercisable by the Minister alone or a strategic highways company alone, whichever is highway authority for the trunk road (“the trunk road authority”), and while the highway remains a trunk road they shall continue to be so exercisable.\n(2) Where the Minister is satisfied that there has been conferred on a council by a local or private Act a function substantially similar to one conferred by a provision of this Act specified in Schedule 3 to this Act, he may, after consultation with the council, by order direct that, in relation to a trunk road, the function conferred by the local or private Act is to be exercisable in accordance with the following conditions:\n(a) where the provision of the local or private Act is similar to a provision of this Act specified in Part I of the said Schedule 3, that it is to be exercisable by the trunk road authorityonly;\n(b) where the provision of the local or private Act is similar to a provision of this Act specified in Part II of the said Schedule, that, in so far as it is exercisable by a council, it is to be exercisable by that council. . . , as well as by the trunk road authority;\n(c) where the provision of the local or private Act is similar to a provision of this Act specified in Part III of the said Schedule, that, in so far as it is exercisable by a council, it is to be exercisable by that council with the consent of thetrunk road authority. . . , as well as by the trunk road authority.\n(3) Where the Minister makes an order under this section in relation to a function conferred by a provision of a local or private Act, and the provision of this Act by which a function substantially similar to the first-mentioned function is conferred is, in relation to a trunk road, subject to any modification, the provision of the local or private Act shall, in relation to a trunk road, be subject to a similar modification, and the Minister may by the same order specify the modification to which the provision of the local or private Act is accordingly to be subject.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(1) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 11(2); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(2)(a) substituted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 11(3); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 102, Sch. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(2)(b) substituted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 11(3); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 11(2)(c) substituted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 11(3); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 11 modified (22.7.2008) by Transport for London Act 2008 (c. i), ss. 1, 32(1) (with ss. 32(2), 48)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:26:54.963801+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}