{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-additional-offences-and-prescribed-devices-order-1997/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-additional-offences-and-prescribed-devices-order-1997/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/384",
  "legislation_title": "The Road Traffic Offenders (Additional Offences and Prescribed Devices) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-offenders-additional-offences-and-prescribed-devices-order-1997",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends section 20 of the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 to add offences relating to the abuse of bus lanes to the offences to which that section, which deals with the admissibility of certain evidence, applies. It also prescribes bus lane cameras as devices which may be used to produce evidence under that section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/384/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:25:09.124559+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."
}