{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-scotland-act-2019/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-scotland-act-2019/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2019/17",
  "legislation_title": "Transport (Scotland) Act 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transport-scotland-act-2019",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Dropped footway parking prohibition",
  "text": "(1) A person must not park a motor vehicle on a carriageway adjacent to a footway where, for the purpose of assisting pedestrians or cyclists to cross the carriageway—\n(a) the footway has been lowered to meet the level of the carriageway, or\n(b) the carriageway has been raised to meet the level of the footway.\n(2) In this Part, the prohibition in subsection (1) is referred to as the “dropped footway parking prohibition”.\n(3) In this section and section 57—\n“carriageway” has the meaning given by section 51(6),\n“footway” has the meaning given by section 50(4),\n“motor vehicle” has the meaning given by section 54(5).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 56 in force at 11.12.2023 by S.S.I. 2023/250, sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2019/17/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:55.874249+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."
}