{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-and-locomotives-amendment-act-1878-repealed-5111993/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-and-locomotives-amendment-act-1878-repealed-5111993/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/41-42/77",
  "legislation_title": "Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act 1878 (repealed 5.11.1993)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/highways-and-locomotives-amendment-act-1878-repealed-5111993",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "†Power of county authority to make byelaws.",
  "text": "The council of a county or metropolitan district may, with respect to all or any of the highways in that county or district, and the council of a London borough or the Common Council of the City of London may, with respect to all or any of the highways for which they are the highway authority, make and when made alter or repeal, byelaws for all or any of the purposes following; (that is to say,)\n(1) For prohibiting or regulating the use of any waggon wain cart or carriage drawn by animal power and having wheels of which the fellies or tires are not of such width in proportion to the weight carried by, or to the size of, or to the number of wheels of such waggon wain cart or carriage as may be specified in such byelaws; and\n(2) For prohibiting or regulating the use of any waggon wain cart or other carriage drawn by animal power not having the nails on its wheels countersunk in such manner as may be specified in such byelaws, or having on its wheels bars or other projections forbidden by such byelaws; and\n(3) For prohibiting or regulating the locking of the wheel of any waggon wain cart or carriage drawn by animal power when descending a hill, unless there is placed at the bottom of such wheel during the whole time of its being locked a skidpan slipper or shoe in such manner as to prevent the road from being destroyed or injured by the locking of such wheel; and\n4), (5) . . .\nFines to be recovered summarily may be imposed by any such byelaws on persons breaking any byelaw made under this section, provided that no fine exceeds for any one offence the sum of level 1 on the standard scale , and that the byelaws are so framed as to allow of the recovery of any sum less than the full amount of the fine.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words substituted by London Government Act 1963 (c. 33), Sch. 17 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 8, Sch. 4 para. 45"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 26(4)(5) repealed by Highways Act 1959 (c. 25), Sch. 25 and Local Government Act 1888 (c. 41), s. 85(1) respectively"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), ss. 36, 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Unreliable marginal note"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/41-42/77/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:44:57.472085+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."
}