{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-bridges-load-bearing-standards-england-and-wales-order-1972/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-bridges-load-bearing-standards-england-and-wales-order-1972/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1972/1705",
  "legislation_title": "The Railway Bridges (Load-Bearing Standards) (England and Wales) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/railway-bridges-load-bearing-standards-england-and-wales-order-1972",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Load-bearing standards for new railway bridges",
  "text": "Subject to the provisions of this Order, the load-bearing standards for new railway bridges shall be as follows:—\n(a) where the road carried by the bridge is a principal road and is also specially classified by the appropriate Minister under section 27(2) of the Local Government Act 1966 as a 45 HB unit road for the purposes of this Order, the standard specified in Part IV of Schedule 1 to this Order;\n(b) where the road carried by the bridge is a principal road but does not fall within paragraph (a) above, the standard specified in Part III of Schedule 1 to this Order;\n(c) where the road carried by the bridge is not a principal road, the standard specified in Part II of Schedule 1 to this Order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1705/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:24:22.855758+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."
}