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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-safety-act-2006/section-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-safety-act-2006/section-53.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/49",
  "legislation_title": "Road Safety Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-safety-act-2006",
  "path": "section/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Abolition of “contract exemption”",
  "text": "In section 75(1) of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976 (hackney carriages and private hire vehicles in England and Wales outside London: savings), omit paragraph (b)(vehicles used only for carrying passengers for hire or reward under contract for hire for not less than 7 day period).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 53 in force at 28.1.2008 for E.W. by S.I. 2007/3492, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/49/section/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:29.210416+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."
}