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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m4-and-m48-motorways-severn-bridges-charging-scheme-amendment-etc-order-2018/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/1300",
  "legislation_title": "The M4 and M48 Motorways (Severn Bridges Charging Scheme) (Amendment etc.) Order 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m4-and-m48-motorways-severn-bridges-charging-scheme-amendment-etc-order-2018",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Highways, England\nMade 3rd December 2018\nComing into force in accordance with article 1\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 163(3)(d), 167(1)(a) and (2)(a), 168(1) and (2) and 171(1) and (5) of the Transport Act 2000 and section 9(1) and (2)(b) of the Severn Bridges Act 1992, makes the following Order.\nAppropriate persons have been consulted in accordance with section 170(1C) of the Transport Act 2000 and regulations 11(3)(a) and 12(2) of the Trunk Road Charging Schemes (Bridges and Tunnels) (England) Procedure Regulations 2001. Notices have also been published in accordance with regulations 11(3)(b) and 12(1) of those Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 38. Section 167(1)(a) was amended by the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), paragraph 126 of Schedule 1. Section 168(2) is amended by the Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26), paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 and the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009 (c. 20), paragraph 109 of Schedule 6. Section 171(5) is amended by the Local Transport Act 2008, section 112(1). There are further amendments to sections 163, 167 and 172 which are not relevant to this Order."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 170(1C) was inserted by the Local Transport Act 2008, section 111."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/2303."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1300/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:51:01.462794+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."
}