{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-roads-and-street-works-act-1991/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-roads-and-street-works-act-1991/section-26.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": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Interpretation.",
  "text": "(1) In this Part the following expressions have the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980—\n“highway authority”,\n“local highway authority”,\n“special road”,\n“special road authority”, and\n“traffic”;\nand “special road scheme” means a scheme under section 16 of that Act authorising the provision of a special road.\n(1A) In this Part, “strategic highways company” means a company for the time being appointed under Part 1 of the Infrastructure Act 2015.\n(2) Where a concession agreement is entered into jointly by two or more local highway authorities, references in this Part to the highway authority shall be construed—\n(a) as references to each of those authorities in relation to times, circumstances and purposes before the special road scheme becomes operative, and\n(b) in relation to times, circumstances and purposes after the special road scheme becomes operative, as references to the authority which in accordance with the scheme is the special road authority.\n(3) The expressions listed below are defined or otherwise fall to be construed for the purposes of this Part in accordance with the provisions indicated—\nconcession agreement\nsection 1(1)\nconcessionaire\nsections 1(1) and 5(1)\nextension toll order\nsection 12(1)\nhighway authority\nsection 26(1) and (2)\nlocal highway authority\nsection 26(1)\nroad subject to a concession\nsection 1(2)\nspecial road\nsection 26(1)\nspecial road authority\nsection 26(1)\nspecial road scheme\nsection 26(1)\nstrategic highways company\nsection 26(1)\ntoll order\nsection 6\ntoll period\nsection 7\ntraffic\nsection 26(1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 26(1A) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 116(2); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 26(3) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 116(3)(a); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 26(3) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 116(3)(b); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 26 wholly in force at 01.11.1991, see s. 170 and S.I. 1991/2288, art.3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/22/section/26",
    "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."
}