{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-plans-and-strategies-disapplication-england-amendment-order-2009/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-plans-and-strategies-disapplication-england-amendment-order-2009/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2009/714",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities’ Plans and Strategies (Disapplication) (England) (Amendment) Order 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-plans-and-strategies-disapplication-england-amendment-order-2009",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Amendment of article 6",
  "text": "In article 6 (disapplication of duties to prepare and publish rights of way improvement plans and amendment of provisions relating to such plans)—\n(a) in paragraph (1) for “excellent” substitute “4 stars”;\n(b) in paragraph (2) for “An excellent” substitute “A 4 stars”;\n(c) in paragraph (3) for “Where at the date on which this Order comes into force an excellent authority” substitute “Where, at the date on which the 2009 Order comes into force, a 4 stars authority”;\n(d) in paragraph (4) for “Where at the date on which this Order comes into force an excellent authority” substitute “Where, at the date on which the 2009 Order comes into force, a 4 stars authority”;\n(e) in paragraph (5) for “an excellent” substitute “a local highway”;\n(f) for paragraph (7) substitute—\n“(7) Paragraph (7A) applies where, on or after the coming into force of the 2009 Order, a local highway authority—\n(a) cease to fall within paragraph (1), or\n(b) cease to be treated as falling within that paragraph,\nand the cessation is not by reason only of the expiration of a period previously specified under paragraph (7A).”;\n(g) after paragraph (7) insert—\n“(7A) Where this paragraph applies, the authority shall be treated for the purposes of paragraph (1) as continuing to fall within that paragraph for a period—\n(a) of such length, not exceeding two years, as the Secretary of State may specify in writing to the authority, and\n(b) beginning with the cessation mentioned in paragraph (7).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/714/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:14:37.313989+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."
}