{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/66",
  "legislation_title": "Highways Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Construction of new highways and provision of road-ferries.",
  "text": "(1) The Ministeror a strategic highways company may... construct new highways; but where heor it proposes to construct a new highway other than—\n(a) a trunk road,\n(b) a special road,\n(c) a highway the construction of which is authorised by an order relating to a trunk road under section 14 above or an order under section 18 above, or\n(d) a highway to be constructed for purposes connected with any function exercisable by himor it under an agreement made under section 4 above,\nheor it shall give notice of hisor its proposals to, and consider any representations by, every council through whose area the highway will pass.\n(1A) Where a strategic highways company proposes to construct a highway which will communicate with a highway for which another strategic highways company is the highway authority, the communication shall not be made unless the manner in which it is to be made has been approved by the Secretary of State.\n(2) A local highway authority may construct new highways; but—\n(a) where a new highway to be constructed by such an authority will communicate with a highway for which the Ministeror a strategic highways company is the highway authority;. . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nthe communication shall not be made unless the manner in which it is to be made has been approved by the Ministeror the company. . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The Minister or a local highway authority may provide and maintain new road-ferries.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(1) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 17(2)(a); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(1) omitted (5.3.2015) by virtue of Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 17(2)(b); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(1) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 17(2)(c); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(1)(d) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 17(2)(d); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(1) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 17(2)(e); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 24(1A) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 17(3); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(2) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 17(4)(a); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 24(2)(b) and the word immediately preceding it and words in concluding words of s. 24(2) repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 102, Sch. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in s. 24(2) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 17(4)(b); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "S. 24(3) repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 102, Sch. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 24(1) modified (18.12.1996) by 1996 c. 61, s. 44, Sch. 12 Pt. III para. 9(b)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 24(2) functions exercisable concurrently (1.4.2018) by The Sub-national Transport Body (Transport for the North) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/103), regs. 1(2), 9(3), 11(b) (with regs. 14, 15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/24",
    "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."
  }
}