{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portishead-branch-line-metrowest-phase-1-order-2022/article-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portishead-branch-line-metrowest-phase-1-order-2022/article-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/1194",
  "legislation_title": "The Portishead Branch Line (MetroWest Phase 1) Order 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/portishead-branch-line-metrowest-phase-1-order-2022",
  "path": "article/20",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Closure of level crossings and crossings over disused railway",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), the crossing specified in columns (1) and (2) of Part 1 of Schedule 8 (closure of crossings) is to be permanently stopped up and discontinued.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), upon the stopping up and discontinuance of any crossing referred to in paragraph (1), all public or private rights of way (if any) over the part of the crossing specified in relation to it in column (3) of Part 1 of Schedule 8 are extinguished.\n(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) are not to take effect with respect to the permanent stopping up and discontinuance of the crossing specified in columns (1), (2) and (3) of Part 1 of Schedule 8 until the replacement specified in relation to it in column (4) of that Part of that Schedule has been constructed and completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the street authority and is open for use.\n(4) The crossings specified in columns (1) and (2) of Part 2 of Schedule 8 are permanently stopped up and discontinued to the extent specified in column (3) of that Part of that Schedule.\n(5) Upon the permanent closure of each of the crossings referred to in paragraph (4), all public or private rights of way (if any) over the part of the crossings specified in relation to it in column (3) of Part 2 of Schedule 8 are extinguished.\n(6) Any person who suffers loss by the extinguishment or suspension of any private right of way under this article is entitled to compensation to be determined, in case of dispute, as if it were a dispute under Part 1 of the 1961 Act.\n(7) In this article and in Schedule 8 “crossing” includes a level crossing, a former level crossing and a permissive crossing of the railway or disused railway.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 20 in force at 5.12.2022, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/1194/article/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:53:31.025268+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."
}