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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-management-act-2004/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-management-act-2004/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/18",
  "legislation_title": "Traffic Management Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-management-act-2004",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Guidance to network management authorities",
  "text": "(1) The appropriate national authority may publish guidance to network management authorities about the techniques of network management or any other matter relating to the performance of the duties imposed by sections 16 and 17.\n(2) In performing those duties a network management authority shall have regard to any such guidance.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1)(2) and heading substituted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 137; S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 18 in force at 4.1.2005 for E. by S.I. 2004/3110, art. 2(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 18 in force at 26.10.2006 for W. by S.I. 2006/2826, art. 2(1)(2)(b)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/18/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:08.169097+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."
}