{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-councils-act-1957/section-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-councils-act-1957/section-7.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/42",
  "legislation_title": "Parish Councils Act 1957",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parish-councils-act-1957",
  "path": "section/7",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Part I.",
  "text": "In this Part of this Act except so far as the context otherwise requires—\n“in” in a context referring to things in a road includes a reference to things under, over, across, along or upon the road;\n“owner” has the meaning assigned to it by section three hundred and forty-three of the Public Health Act, 1936;\n“public path” has the meaning assigned to it by section twenty-seven of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949;\n“road” means any highway (including a public path) and any other road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage (whether a thoroughfare or not) to which the public has access, but does not include a special road (as defined by the Special Roads Act, 1949).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1936 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1949 c. 97."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1949 c. 32."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/5-6/42/section/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:13:45.477163+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."
}