{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merseyside-passenger-transport-area-adaptation-of-enactments-and-instruments-order-1973/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merseyside-passenger-transport-area-adaptation-of-enactments-and-instruments-order-1973/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1973/1731",
  "legislation_title": "The Merseyside Passenger Transport Area (Adaptation of Enactments and Instruments) Order 1973",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merseyside-passenger-transport-area-adaptation-of-enactments-and-instruments-order-1973",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order makes provision for the existing Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive to become on 1st April 1974 the Passenger Transport Executive for the metropolitan county of Merseyside, for the dissolution on that date of the existing Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority and for the vesting of the property, rights and liabilities of that Authority on that date in the County Council of Merseyside (Articles 3 and 4).\nProvision is also made for the transfer to the Executive on the 1st April 1974 of the powers and duties of St. Helens and Southport County Borough Councils in connection with their road passenger transport undertakings (Article 5), for the modification of statutory provision relating to those undertakings (Article 6) and for enabling certain arrangements with respect to travel concessions on the services of those undertakings to be continued (Article 7).\nThe existing Orders relating to the Merseyside Passenger Transport Area are amended (Article 8 and Schedule 2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1973/1731/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:59:33.482807+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."
}