{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980/section-277",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980/section-277.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/66",
  "legislation_title": "Highways Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-act-1980",
  "path": "section/277",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "277",
  "heading": "Contribution towards maintenance of bridge where road ceases to be a trunk road.",
  "text": "Where a trunk road carried by a bridge vested in the Minister or a strategic highways company by virtue of section 266 above ceases to be a trunk road, the Ministeror the company may contribute towards the expenses to be incurred in the maintenance of the bridge by the council who become the highway authority for the road.\nIn this section “bridge” includes the highway carried by the bridge and so much of the approaches thereto as supports or protects the surface of the trunk road.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 277 inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 57(2); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 277 inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 57(3); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/66/section/277",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:14:39.674923+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."
  }
}