{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/52",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-act-1988",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Road safety grants",
  "text": "(1) A national transport authority may make payments to any local authority or any other authority or body for meeting the whole or part of the capital or running costs of any measures for promoting road safety.\n(2) A “national transport authority” means—\n(a) the Secretary of State acting with the approval of the Treasury, or\n(b) the National Assembly for Wales.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 40 substituted (E.W.) (8.1.2007) by Road Safety Act 2006 (c. 49), ss. 1, 61(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 40: transfer of functions (1.7.1999) by 1998 c. 46, ss. 53, 56(1)(i) (with s. 126(3)-(11)); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 2(1)S. 40 modified (1.7.1999) by S.I. 1999/672, arts. 1, 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 40: functions made exercisable concurrently or jointly with the Welsh Ministers by 2006 c. 32, Sch. 3A para. 1 (as inserted (1.4.2018) by Wales Act 2017 (c. 4), s. 71(4), Sch. 4 para. 1 (with Sch. 7 paras. 1, 6); S.I. 2017/1179, reg. 3(p))"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision extends to England and Wales only; a separate version has been created for Scotland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/52/section/40",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:34.565959+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."
}