{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984/schedule-9/paragraph-31",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/27",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Before making an order to which this Part of this Schedule applies, the local authority—\n(a) shall consult with the traffic commissioner for any traffic area constituted for the purposes of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981 in which the area, or any part of the area, of the local authority is situated, and\n(a) shall consult the senior traffic commissioner appointed under section 4A of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981, and\n(b) if the local authority’s area is situated wholly or partly within an area which is an integrated transport area or a passenger transport area for the purposes of Part II of the Transport Act 1968, shall consult with the Passenger Transport Executive for that area.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 para. 31(a) substituted (E.W) (3.7.2013) by The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1644), art. 1(1), Sch. 3 (with art. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word substituted by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 3(5), Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by Transport Act 1985 (c. 67, SIF 126), s. 57(6), Sch. 3 para. 33"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 para. 31(b) inserted (E.W.) (9.2.2009) by Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26), ss. 77(5), 134, Sch. 4 para. 51(2)(a); S.I. 2009/107, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 1 (subject to Sch. 1 Pt. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 9 para. 31(b) substituted (E.W.) (9.2.2009) by Local Transport Act 2008 (c. 26), ss. 77(5), 134, Sch. 4 para. 51(2)(b); S.I. 2009/107, art. 2(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 1 (subject to Sch. 1 Pt. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "asc/2026/2",
      "affecting_title": "Bus Services (Wales) Act 2026"
    }
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/schedule/9/paragraph/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-07T03:33:57.488236+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."
}