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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-safety-act-2006-commencement-no-11-and-transitional-provisions-order-2015/article-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/560",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Safety Act 2006 (Commencement No. 11 and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-safety-act-2006-commencement-no-11-and-transitional-provisions-order-2015",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Counterparts seized or surrendered",
  "text": "On or after the Commencement Date a Counterpart, Community counterpart or section 109A counterpart may be destroyed by a court, traffic commissioner or the Secretary of State if it—\n(a) was seized by, surrendered to, produced to or otherwise came to be lawfully held by that court, traffic commissioner or by the Secretary of State prior to the Commencement Date and was not required to be returned prior to the Commencement Date; or\n(b) was seized by, surrendered to, produced to or otherwise came to be lawfully held by that court, traffic commissioner or by the Secretary of State on or after the Commencement Date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/560/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:44:10.182985+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."
}