{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-property-etc-merseyside-order-1987/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-property-etc-merseyside-order-1987/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1463",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Reorganisation (Property, etc.) (Merseyside) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-reorganisation-property-etc-merseyside-order-1987",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Highways Land",
  "text": "Where on 1st April 1986 by virtue of section 263 of the Highways Act 1980, any highway in Merseyside vested in a metropolitan district council, any interest of the Merseyside Residuary Body in any land below such highway shall vest in that council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1980 c. 66. On 1st April, 1986, by virtue of section 8 and Schedule 4 of the Local Government Act 1985, metropolitan district councils became highway authorities for their areas, and by virtue of section 263 the highways vested in such councils."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1463/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:21:17.840168+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."
}