{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/urban-clearways-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/urban-clearways-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/197",
  "legislation_title": "Urban Clearways Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/urban-clearways-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Urban Clearways Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 14th May 1997.\n(2) In this Order—\n“carriageway” means a way constituted or comprised in a road being a way over which the public have a right of way for the passage of vehicles but does not include a lay-by;\n“lay-by” means a surfaced area adjacent to the carriageway intended for the waiting of vehicles;\n“specified road” means the carriageway of any road or length of road specified in column 1 of Schedule 1;\n“statutory undertaker” means—\n(a) the Post Office;\n(b) the railway undertaking within the meaning of the Transport Act (Northern Ireland) 1967;\n(c) an undertaking within the meaning of the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1977;\n(d) any body or person authorised by any statutory provision to carry on any harbour or dock undertaking.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 1 in operation at 14.5.1997, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1967 c. 37 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1977/596 (N.I. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/197",
      "affecting_title": "Urban Clearways Order (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2013/28",
      "affecting_title": "The Urban Clearways (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2013/28",
      "affecting_title": "The Urban Clearways (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/197/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:29:38.377347+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."
}