{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-roads-and-street-works-act-1991/schedule-8/paragraph-99",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-roads-and-street-works-act-1991/schedule-8/paragraph-99.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1991/22",
  "legislation_title": "New Roads and Street Works Act 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-roads-and-street-works-act-1991",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/99",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "99",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Fire Services Act 1947 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 3(2) (supplementary powers of fire authorities; provisions as to exercise of power to place fire alarms in public places), for the words from the beginning to “maintaining the road;” or, in Scotland, “of the roads authority;” substitute—\n“(2) Before exercising the powers conferred by subsection (1)(c) above in relation to a highway for which they are not the highway authority or, in Scotland, a public road for which they are not the roads authority, a fire authority shall obtain the consent of the highway or roads authority;”.\n(3) In section 38(1) (interpretation)—\n(a) at the appropriate place insert—\n““highway authority” has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980;”; and\n(b) in the definition of “road” for the words “Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950” substitute “Part IV of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 99 repealed (S.) (2.8.2005) by Fire (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 5), s. 90, sch. 4 (with s. 77); S.S.I. 2005/392, art. 2(k)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 99 wholly in force: Sch. 8 para. 99(1)(2) in force (S.) at 01.11.1991 see s. 170(1) and S.I. 1991/2286, art. 2(2), Sch. 2; Sch. 8 para. 99(1)(2) in force (E.W.) and Sch. 8 para. 99(3)(a) wholly in force at 01.11.1991 by S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3, Sch.; Sch. 8 para. 99 wholly in force at 1.1.1993 (E.W.) by S.I. 1992/2984, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 and (S.) by S.I. 1992/2990, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/22/schedule/8/paragraph/99",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:34:08.105882+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."
}