{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-areas-reorganisation-order-1990/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-areas-reorganisation-order-1990/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/288",
  "legislation_title": "The Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-areas-reorganisation-order-1990",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) In this Order—\n“the 1968 Act” means the Transport Act 1968;\n“the 1981 Act” means the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981;\n“the 1983 Order” means the Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) (No. 2) Order 1983;\n“new area” and “transferred area” shall be construed in accordance with article 4(6);\n“goods vehicle operator’s licence” means an operator’s licence within the meaning of section 60(1) of the 1968 Act;\n“operating centre”, in relation to a goods vehicle operator’s licence, has the meaning given by section 92 of the 1968 Act and, in relation to a PSV operator’s licence has the meaning given by section 82 of the 1981 Act;\n“reorganisation date” has the meaning given by article 4;\n“PSV operator’s licence” has the meaning given by section 82(1) of the 1981 Act.\n(2) In this Order, a reference to a traffic commissioner for an area, in relation to anything done before section 3 of the Transport Act 1985 came into force, includes a reference to the traffic commissioners or the chairman of the traffic commissioners for the area (as appropriate).\n(3) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to—\n(a) a numbered article is a reference to the article bearing that number in this Order;\n(b) a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the article in which it appears.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 73; section 59 was amended by the Transport Act 1985 (c. 67); sections 60(4) and 71(6) were amended by the Road Traffic Acts 1960 and 1972, Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 and Transport Act 1968 (Metrication) Regulations 1981 (S. 1. 1981/1373); sections 67(2) and 69(4) were amended by Schedule 4 to the Road Traffic Act 1974 (c. 50); sections 69C(2), 69D(3), 69E(I), 69G(2) and (3) were added by Schedule 4 to the Transport Act 1982 (c. 49); sections 71(6), 85(1), 86, 89(1) and 91(1) and (2) were amended by Part II of Schedule 9 to the Transport Act 1980 (c. 34)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1985 c. 67."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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