{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984/section-80",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984/section-80.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1984/27",
  "legislation_title": "Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/road-traffic-regulation-act-1984",
  "path": "section/80",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "80",
  "heading": "References to highway authorities in Part V.",
  "text": "(1) References to a traffic authority in any of the provisions of this Act specified in subsection (2) below shall be construed as including references to any person who, not being a traffic authority , is responsible for the maintenance of a road.\n(2) The provisions of this Act referred to in subsection (1) above are section 65 and sections 68 to 73.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 80(1) substituted (1.11.1991) by New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22, SIF 59, 108), s. 168(1), Sch. 8 para.58; which substitution is in force for Scotland only by S.I. 1991/2286, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 and for England and Wales only by S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3,Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1984/27/section/80",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:02:32.152245+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."
}