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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-areas-reorganisation-wales-order-1999/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-areas-reorganisation-wales-order-1999/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1204",
  "legislation_title": "The Traffic Areas (Reorganisation) (Wales) Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-areas-reorganisation-wales-order-1999",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Construction and amendment of enactments and other documents",
  "text": "(1) A reference in any enactment passed or made before the reorganisation date or in any other document made or issued before that date to the South-Wales Traffic Area, or to the traffic commissioner for the South-Wales Traffic Area, shall, in relation to any time on or after that date, be construed as a reference to the Welsh Traffic Area, or (as the case may be) the traffic commissioner for the Welsh Traffic Area.\n(2) In respect of the transferred part of the North-Western Traffic Area, any reference in any enactment passed or made before the reorganisation date or in any other document made or issued before that date to the North-Western Traffic Area, or to the traffic commissioner for the North-Western Traffic Area, shall, in relation to any time on or after that date, be construed as a reference to the Welsh Traffic Area, or (as the case may be) the traffic commissioner for the Welsh Traffic Area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/1644",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Transport Act 2008 (Traffic Commissioners) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1204/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:49:26.423489+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."
}