{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/londonholyhead-trunk-road-a5-chirk-by-pass-order-1987/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/londonholyhead-trunk-road-a5-chirk-by-pass-order-1987/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1037",
  "legislation_title": "The London—Holyhead Trunk Road A5 (Chirk By-pass) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/londonholyhead-trunk-road-a5-chirk-by-pass-order-1987",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The Secretaries of State direct as respects any part of a highway which crosses the route of the new trunk road that—\n(a) where the highway is a highway maintainable at the public expense by a local highway authority, the part in question shall be maintained by that authority, and\n(b) where the highway is not a highway so maintainable and is not maintainable under a special enactment or by reason of tenure, enclosure or prescription, the Secretaries of State shall be under no duty to maintain the part in question, until, in either case, a date to be specified in a notice given by either of the Secretaries of State to the highway authority for that highway. The date specified will not be later than the date on which the relevant route is opened for the purpose of through traffic.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/1037/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:25:19.091362+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."
}