{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/severn-bridges-regulations-1996/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/severn-bridges-regulations-1996/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1316",
  "legislation_title": "The Severn Bridges Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/severn-bridges-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Prevention of damage etc.",
  "text": "Unless previously authorised by the concessionaire, where tolls are for the time being leviable by a concessionaire, or by the Secretary of State, it is prohibited to do or attempt any of the following:—\n(a) to go upon, enter, interfere with or use for any purpose any part of the bridges or toll plaza areas (not being a part of the roads carried by the bridges or within those areas or of the cycleway or footway but including any works, structure, building, equipment or apparatus placed in, on, over or under those bridges or areas);\n(b) wilfully or negligently to damage or interfere with the bridges, toll plaza areas, or any structures, works or apparatus on, under or over them or used in connection with the regulation of traffic on the roads carried by the bridges or the roads within the toll plaza areas or with the collection of tolls;\n(c) wilfully or negligently to damage or, without the permission of a constable or appointed person, remove, take up or cross any bar, rail, fence or barrier, or force open any gate or movable barrier, fitted or placed on any part of the bridges or the toll plaza areas for the regulation of any class of traffic including pedestrians;\n(d) wilfully to remove, damage, deface, obscure or mark any part of the bridges or toll plaza areas, or any structure, works or apparatus in, on, under or over those bridges or areas or used in connection with the regulation of traffic thereon, or with the levying of tolls or any sign or notice on or near the roads carried by those bridges or the roads within the toll plaza areas and so used; and\n(e) to post on, or affix to, any part of the bridges or toll plaza areas or to any such structure, works or apparatus, any slogan, bill, placard, notice, device or object.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1316/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:43:39.577696+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."
}