{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m48-motorway-severn-bridge-temporary-prohibition-of-heavy-goods-vehicles-order-2025/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m48-motorway-severn-bridge-temporary-prohibition-of-heavy-goods-vehicles-order-2025/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/607",
  "legislation_title": "The M48 Motorway (Severn Bridge) (Temporary Prohibition of Heavy Goods Vehicles) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/m48-motorway-severn-bridge-temporary-prohibition-of-heavy-goods-vehicles-order-2025",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“appointed person” has the meaning given in section 23 of the Severn Bridges Act 1992;\n“goods vehicle” has the meaning given in Schedule 1 to the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016;\n“length of carriageway” means—\n(a) the westbound carriageway of the M48 from a point 239 metres west of the tip of the nosing of the westbound entry slip road at junction 1 (Aust) to a point 47 metres west of the mechanical joint at the western end of the M48 Severn Bridge; and\n(b) the eastbound carriageway of the M48 from a point 47 metres west of the mechanical joint at the western end of the M48 Severn Bridge to a point 239 metres west of the tip of the nosing of the westbound entry slip road at junction 1 (Aust);\n“M48” means the M48 motorway;\n“maximum gross weight” has the meaning given in Schedule 1 to the Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions 2016;\n“period of danger” means the period starting at 00:01 hours on Tuesday 27th May 2025 and ending when the likelihood of danger has ended or after 18 months, whichever is sooner;\n“tip of the nosing” means the first point where an entry slip road joins the carriageway of a motorway or the last point where an exit slip road leaves the carriageway of a motorway.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2016/362."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/607/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:15:43.581239+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."
}