{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-order-1999/article-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-order-1999/article-22.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1306",
  "legislation_title": "The Wirral Tramway Order 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/wirral-tramway-order-1999",
  "path": "article/22",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Trespass on tramroads",
  "text": "(1) Any person who–\n(a) trespasses on any tramroad to which this article relates; or\n(b) trespasses upon any land of the undertaker in dangerous proximity to the tramroads to which this article relates or to any electrical or other apparatus used for or in connection with the operation of the tramroads to which this article relates;\nshall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(2) No person shall be convicted of an offence under this article unless it is shown that a notice warning the public not to trespass upon the tramroads was clearly exhibited and maintained at the station or other stopping place on the authorised tramway nearest the place where the offence is alleged to have been committed.\n(3) This article relates to the authorised tramroads and to the tramroads authorised by the Wirral Tramway Light Railway Order 1994.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/1761."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1306/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:48:47.040406+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."
}