{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-passenger-transport-policies-anticipatory-exercise-of-powers-order-1986/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-passenger-transport-policies-anticipatory-exercise-of-powers-order-1986/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1986/81",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Passenger Transport Policies (Anticipatory Exercise of Powers) Order 1986",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-passenger-transport-policies-anticipatory-exercise-of-powers-order-1986",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Order—\n“area of the authority” means the area for which an authority will become the Passenger Transport Authority on 1st April 1986;\n“authority” means a metropolitan county passenger transport authority established pursuant to sections 23 and 28 of the Local Government Act 1985;\n“Executive” means the Passenger Transport Executive for the area of an authority;\n“Passenger Transport Authority” means the Passenger Transport Authority for a passenger transport area for the purposes of Part II of the Transport Act 1968;\n“public passenger transport services” has the same meaning as in the Transport Act 1985.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "By virtue of the Transport Act 1985, section 58(2)(a)(ii)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Part II, as it applies in England and Wales, was amended by the Local Government Act 1972 (c.70), section 202 and Schedule 24, Part I (as amended by the Transport Act 1985, Schedule 3, paragraph 11); and by the Local Government Act 1974, section 35 and Schedule 6, paragraph 22; and by the Transport Act 1983 (c.10), section 9; and by the Transport Act 1985, section 57 and Schedule 3 and Schedule 7, paragraphs 7 to 9."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1986/81/article/2",
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  },
  "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."
}