{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m1-m2-link-belfast-order-northern-ireland-2003/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m1-m2-link-belfast-order-northern-ireland-2003/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2003/149",
  "legislation_title": "M1-M2 Link (Belfast) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m1-m2-link-belfast-order-northern-ireland-2003",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the M1-M2 Link (Belfast) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 21st April 2003.\n(2) In this Order “the map” means the drawing numbered M1WL/11/1/4 marked “Ml-M2 Link (Belfast) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003” copies of which have been deposited at the Department’s Roads Service offices, Headquarters, Room 2-01, Clarence Court, 10-18 Adelaide Street, Belfast BT2 8GB and Eastern Division, Hydebank, 4 Hospital Road, Belfast BT8 8JL.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in operation at 21.4.2003, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2014/36",
      "affecting_title": "The M1/Trunk Road T3 and M1-M2 Link (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2014"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/2003/149",
      "affecting_title": "M1-M2 Link (Belfast) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2003/149/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:03:48.973885+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."
}