{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1930/section-121",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1930/section-121.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo5/20-21/43",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1930",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1930",
  "path": "section/121",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "121",
  "heading": "Interpretation and application to Crown.",
  "text": "(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, that is to say:—\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“Trolley vehicle” means a mechanically-propelled vehicle adapted for use upon roads without rails and moved by power transmitted thereto from some external source:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“Fares” includes sums payable in respect of a contract ticket or a season ticket:\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . .\n“Road” means any highway and any other road to which the public has access, and includes bridges over which a road passes:\n“Road” has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“Minister” means the Secretary of State\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(1B) References in this Act to public service vehicles shall be construed in like manner as if they were contained in the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Definition repealed by Road Traffic Act 1956 (c. 67), Sch. 9 and Road Traffic Act 1960 (c. 16), Sch. 18 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Definitions repealed by Road Traffic Act 1960 (c. 16), Sch. 18 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Definition in s. 121(1) repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. XV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Definition commencing “ “Road” has the same meaning” substituted (S.) for definition commencing “ “Road” means any highway” by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(1), Sch. 9 para. 27(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Definition of “Highway authority” repealed (S.) by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(3), Sch. 11 and (E.W.) by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 102, Sch. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1953/1204 (1953 I, p. 1225), art. 3(1) and 1955/1955 (1955 I, p. 1205), arts. 2, 6(1), Sch. 1 Pt. I"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 121(1A) inserted by Road Traffic Act 1960 (c. 16), Sch. 17, repealed (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt.XV"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 121(1B) inserted (5.11.1993) by 1993 c. 50, s. 1(2), Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Ss. 119(10), 120, 121(2), 122 repealed by Road Traffic Act 1960 (c. 16), Sch. 18 Pt. I"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/20-21/43/section/121",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:38:58.052910+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."
}