{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stopping-up-of-accesses-to-premises-procedure-regulations-1971/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1971/1707",
  "legislation_title": "The Stopping up of Accesses to Premises (Procedure) Regulations 1971",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/stopping-up-of-accesses-to-premises-procedure-regulations-1971",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations prescribe the procedure to be followed in connection with the making and confirmation of orders under section 2 of the Highways Act 1971 for the stopping up of private means of access to premises from a highway where the means of access are likely to cause danger to, or to interfere unreasonably with, traffic on the highway.\nRegulation 3 requires the publication in a local newspaper of notice of the Secretary of State's proposal to make such an order or of the making of such an order by a local highway authority, and Regulation 4 requires the service of a copy of such notice on the owner and occupier of the premises affected. Where the stopping up of a means of access to premises is likely to involve the provision of a new means of access to those premises by the highway authority, Regulation 5 makes it necessary for the route of the new means of access to be shown on the order plan and for the owner and occupier of the land across which that route will run (if different from the owner and occupier who will be served under Regulation 4) to be served with a copy of the notice.\nRegulation 6 prescribes the documents which must be submitted to the Secretary of State by a local highway authority in a case where an order made by such an authority requires confirmation by him, Regulation 7 deals with the consideration of objections by the Secretary of State and Regulation 8 provides for modifications to orders published in draft by the Secretary of State or submitted to him by a local highway authority for confirmation.\nRegulation 9 requires copies of the notice of the making of an order by the Secretary of State or of the confirmation of an order made by a local highway authority to be served upon the owner and occupier of the premises or other land affected.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1971/1707/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:39:25.080286+00:00"
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  "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."
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