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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-traffic-and-highways-transitional-provisions-order-1965/article-21",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1965/481",
  "legislation_title": "The London Traffic and Highways (Transitional Provisions) Order 1965",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/london-traffic-and-highways-transitional-provisions-order-1965",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "General provisions relating to highways",
  "text": "(1) Where under the provisions of any enactment, at any time before 1st April 1965, any act has been done by, any notice or payment has been given or made to, or any right has been conferred on, a local highway authority in relation to any highway situated in Greater London, then, on and after 1st April 1965, that act shall be deemed to have been done by, that notice or payment shall be deemed to have been given or made to, and that right shall be deemed to have conferred on—\n(a) the Greater London Council, where the highway in question becomes a metropolitan road,\n(b) in the case of all other highways, the council of the London borough in which the highway is situated or, where the highway is situated in the City, the Common Council.\n(2) Where under the provisions of any enactment, at any time before 1st April 1965, any act has been done by, any notice or payment has been given or made to, or any right has been conferred on, a council in relation to any highway situated in Greater London, and the act, notice, payment or right is not one to which the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Article apply, then, on and after 1st April 1965, that act shall be deemed to have been done by, that notice or payment shall be deemed to have been given or made to, and that right shall be deemed to have been conferred on, the Greater London Council, the council of the London borough in which the highway is situated, or, where the highway is situated in the City, the Common Council, according as the functions in connection with which that act was done, that notice was given, that payment was made or that right was conferred become exercisable on 1st April 1965 by that Council.\n(3) Where at any time before 1st April 1965 any act has been done by, any notice or payment has been given or made to, or any right has been conferred on, any local highway authority or any council, in relation to a highway situated in Greater London, under any enactment repealed or revoked by or under the Act of 1963, and the act, notice, payment or right is such that it could have been done, given, made or conferred under a provision of the Act of 1959 or the Act of 1961 if that provision had been in force in relation to that highway, then that act, notice, payment or right shall not be invalidated by the repeals or revocations aforesaid but shall on and after 1st April 1965 have effect as if it had been done, given, made or conferred under that provision.\n(4) In this Article, except where the context otherwise requires—\n“council” includes, as respects anything done or occurring before 1st April 1965, the London County Council or the council of a metropolitan borough;\n“enactment” includes any order or other instrument made under an Act of Parliament;\n“highway” includes a street, a private street, a new street and a proposed highway, and where a highway is referred to as being situated in Greater London or in a London borough or in the City that reference shall, in relation to a new street or a proposed highway, be construed as a reference to its situation when it is provided or constructed;\n“local highway authority” includes, as respects anything done or occurring before 1st April 1965, the London County Council;\na reference to any act done by an authority shall include a reference to any scheme, order, regulation, byelaw, agreement, requirement, application or apportionment made, resolution passed, charge conferred, authorisation granted, notice, direction, consent, approval, license or certificate given, building line or improvement line prescribed, or other thing done by that authority;\na reference to any right conferred upon an authority shall include a reference to an obligation assumed by or imposed on or a deposit or lodgment made with that authority, a transfer of a highway to that authority and a provision for that authority to become the highway authority for a highway; and any expression which is defined in the Act of 1959 (as amended by the Act of 1963) and is used in this Article shall have the same meaning as in the said Act (as so amended).\n(5) In so far as provision is made in any other Article of this order or in or by virtue of any other order under section 84 of the Act of 1963 for any matter the provisions of this Article shall not apply in relation to that matter.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1965/481/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T23:59:13.644533+00:00"
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  "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."
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