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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-act-2015/section-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-act-2015/section-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2015/7",
  "legislation_title": "Infrastructure Act 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infrastructure-act-2015",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Appointment of strategic highways companies",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may by order in accordance with this Part appoint one or more companies as a highway authority.\n(2) A company may only be appointed under this section if it is—\n(a) limited by shares, and\n(b) wholly owned by the Secretary of State.\n(3) The appointment of a company terminates (in addition to termination by revocation of the order making the appointment) if the company ceases to be wholly owned by the Secretary of State.\n(4) A company appointed under this section is called a “strategic highways company”.\n(5) In this section, “company” means a company registered under the Companies Act 2006.\n(6) Schedule 1 (which contains consequential and supplemental amendments) has effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 partly in force; s. 1 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 57(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 1 in force at 5.3.2015 by S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/7/section/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:01:33.299568+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."
  }
}