Highway Act

Highway Act (with its variations) is a stock short title used in India, the United Kingdom and the United States for legislation relating to highways.

India

• The National Highways Act, 1956 ^[1]

United Kingdom

• The Highways Act 1555 (2 & 3 Ph. & M. c. 8)

• The Highways Act 1562 (5 Eliz. 1. c. 13)

• The Highways Act 1662 (14 Cha. 2. c. 6)

Highways Act 1695
Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long title	An Act for the better amending & repairing the High-ways and Explanacion of the Laws relateing thereunto.
Citation	7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 29
Territorial extent	England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent	27 April 1696
Commencement	22 November 1695 [a]
Repealed	21 September 1767
Other legislation
Amended by	Highways Act 1707
Repealed by	Highways (No. 2) Act 1766
Relates to	Bridges Act 1670 Highways Act 1696
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1695 (7 & 8 Will. 3. c. 29)

Highways Act 1696
Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long title	An Act for enlargeing Common High-ways.
Citation	8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 16
Territorial extent	England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent	1 April 1697
Commencement	20 October 1696 [a]
Repealed	21 September 1767
Other legislation
Repealed by	Highways (No. 2) Act 1766
Relates to	Highways Act 1662 Highways Act 1695
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1696 (8 & 9 Will. 3. c. 16)

Highways Act 1707
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act to repeal a Clause in an Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty (for amending and repairing the Highways) which enjoins Waggoners and others to draw with a Pole between the Wheel Horses, or with Double Shafts; and to oblige them to draw only with Six Horses, or other Beasts, except up Hills.
Citation	6 Ann. c. 56 [b] 6 Ann. c. 29 [c]
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	1 April 1708
Commencement	23 October 1707 [d]
Repealed	21 September 1767
Other legislation
Amends	Highways Act 1695
Amended by	Highways Act 1710
Repealed by	Highways (No. 2) Act 1766
Relates to	Highways Act 1714
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1707 (6 Ann. c. 56)

Highways Act 1710
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act to render more effectual an Act made in the Sixth Year of Her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act to repeal a Clause in an Act of the Seventh Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, for amending Highways, which enjoins Waggoners and others to draw with a Pole between the Wheel Horses, or with Double Shafts; and to oblige them to draw only with Six Horses, or other Beasts, except up Hills."
Citation	9 Ann. c. 23 [b] 9 Ann. c. 18 [c]
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	16 May 1711
Commencement	24 January 1711 [e]
Repealed	21 September 1767
Other legislation
Amends	Highways Act 1707
Repealed by	Highways (No. 2) Act 1766
Relates to	Highways Act 1714
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1710 (9 Ann. c. 23)

Highways Act 1714
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act to refrain all waggoners, carriers, and others, for drawing any carriage with more than five horses in length.
Citation	1 Geo. 1. St. 2. c. 11
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	2 August 1715
Commencement	30 September 1715 [e]
Repealed	21 September 1767
Other legislation
Amended by	Highways Act 1718
Repealed by	Highways (No. 2) Act 1766
Relates to	Highways Act 1707 Highways Act 1710
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1714 (1 Geo. 1. St. 2. c. 11)

Highways Act 1715
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act for making the Laws for repairing the Highways more effectual.
Citation	1 Geo. 1. St. 2. c. 52
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	26 June 1716
Commencement	23 January 1728 [f]
Repealed	21 September 1767
Other legislation
Amended by	Continuance, etc., of Acts, 1735
Repealed by	Highways (No. 2) Act 1766
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1715 (1 Geo. 1. St. 2. c. 52)

Highways Act 1718
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act for making more effectual the several Acts passed for repairing and amending the Highways of this Kingdom.
Citation	5 Geo. 1. c. 12
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	18 April 1719
Commencement	24 June 1719 [e]
Repealed	21 September 1767
Other legislation
Amends	Highways Act 1714
Amended by	Highways Act 1742 Highways and Turnpike Roads Act 1753
Repealed by	Highways (No. 2) Act 1766
Relates to	Highways Act 1741
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1718 (5 Geo. 1. c. 12)

Highways Act 1733
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act to explain and make more effectual the Laws in being, to oblige the Possessors of Lands, adjacent to Common Highways, to cut and keep low such Hedges as are adjoining to the said Highways.
Citation	7 Geo. 2. c. 9
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	16 April 1734
Commencement	24 June 1734 [e]
Repealed	21 September 1767
Other legislation
Repealed by	Highways (No. 2) Act 1766
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1733 (7 Geo. 2. c. 9)

Highways Act 1741
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, "An Act for the Preservation of the Public Roads in that Part of Great Britain called England," as obliges Persons not travelling for Hire, to make Use of Waggons with Wheels bound with Streaks, or Tyre, of a certain Breadth, or the said Streaks to be fastened with Nails of a certain Size.
Citation	15 Geo. 2. c. 2
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	3 February 1742
Commencement	10 February 1742 [e]
Repealed	21 September 1767
Other legislation
Amends	Preservation of Roads Act 1740
Repealed by	Highways (No. 2) Act 1766
Relates to	Highways Act 1718 Highways Act 1742
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1741 (15 Geo. 2. c. 2)

Highways Act 1742
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act for allowing Carts to be drawn with four Horses.
Citation	16 Geo. 2. c. 29
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	21 April 1743
Commencement	25 April 1743 [e]
Repealed	21 September 1767
Other legislation
Amends	Highways Act 1718 Preservation of Roads Act 1740
Repealed by	Highways (No. 2) Act 1766
Relates to	Highways Act 1741
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1742 (16 Geo. 2. c. 29)

Highways Act 1747
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the Fourteenth Year of His Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act for the Preservation of the Public Roads, in that Part of Great Britain called England," and so much of an Act passed in the Third Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, intituled, "An Act for the better repairing and amending the Highways, and for settling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods," as relates to the settling the Rates of the Carriage of Goods.
Citation	21 Geo. 2. c. 28
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	13 May 1748
Commencement	10 November 1747 [a]
Repealed	21 June 1827
Other legislation
Amends	Highways, etc. Act 1691 Preservation of Roads Act 1740
Amended by	Turnpike Roads Act 1766 Advances for Rebuilding London Bridge Act 1826
Repealed by	Rates of Carriage of Goods Act 1827
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1747 (21 Geo. 2. c. 28)

Highways Act 1753
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An act for the preventing of the inconveniences and dangers that may arise from the present methods of digging gravel, sandy stone, chalk, and other materials, on the several commons and waste grounds within this kingdom, for the repair of the highways, and for other purposes.
Citation	26 Geo. 2. c. 28
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	7 June 1753
Commencement	24 June 1753 [e]
Repealed	21 September 1767
Other legislation
Repealed by	Highways (No. 2) Act 1766
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1753 (26 Geo. 2. c. 28)

Highways Act 1765
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act to continue Part of an Act made in the Thirtieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, "An Act to render more effectual the several Laws now in being, for the Amendment and Preservation of the Publick Highways and Turnpike Roads of this Kingdom," and for making further Provision for the Preservation of the said Roads.
Citation	5 Geo. 3. c. 38
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	25 May 1765
Commencement	24 June 1765 [e]
Expired	24 June 1772 [g]
Repealed	29 September 1767
Other legislation
Amends	Highways and Turnpike Roads (No. 2) Act 1757
Amended by	Highways Act 1766
Repealed by	Turnpike Roads Act 1766
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1765 (5 Geo. 3. c. 38)

Highways Act 1766
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act for explaining, amending, and further enforcing, the Execution or Two several Acts; one made in the Twenty-sixth Year of His late Majesty; and the other, in the Fifth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, for the Amendment and Preservation of the public Highways and Turnpike Roads of this Kingdom; and for obliging Mortgagees taking Possession of Toll-gates on Turnpike Roads, and Toll, gatherers appointed by them, to accompt.
Citation	6 Geo. 3. c. 43
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	6 June 1766
Commencement	5 July 1766 [e]
Repealed	29 September 1767
Other legislation
Amends	Highways and Turnpike Roads (No. 2) Act 1757 Highways Act 1765
Repeals/revokes	Highways Act 1707 Highways Act 1710 Highways Act 1733
Repealed by	Turnpike Roads Act 1766
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1766 (6 Geo. 3. c. 43)
• The Highways (No. 2) Act 1766 (7 Geo. 3. c. 42)

Highways Act 1768
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An Act to explain, amend, and render more effectual, an Act passed in the Seventh Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled, "An Act to explain, amend, and reduce into One Act of Parliament, the several Statutes now in being, for the amendment, and Preservation of the Public Highways of this Kingdom; and for other Purposes therein mentioned."
Citation	8 Geo. 3. c. 5
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	21 December 1767
Commencement	24 November 1767 [a]
Repealed	15 July 1867
Other legislation
Amends	Weald of Kent Highways (Diversion) Act 1523 Sussex Highway (Diversion) Act 1534 Highways (No. 2) Act 1766
Repealed by	Statute Law Revision Act 1867
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1768 (8 Geo. 3. c. 5)
• The Highways Act 1773 (13 Geo. 3. c. 78)

Highway Act 1794
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An act for the more effectually repairing of such parts of the highways of this kingdom as are to be repaired by two parishes.
Citation	34 Geo. 3. c. 64
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	23 May 1794
Commencement	23 May 1794 [h]
Repealed	20 March 1836
Other legislation
Repealed by	Highway Act 1835
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highway Act 1794 (34 Geo. 3. c. 64)

Highways Act 1794
Act of Parliament
Parliament of Great Britain
Long title	An act for varying some of the provisions in an act of the thirteenth year of his present Majesty's reign, respecting the publick highways, within that part of Great Britain called England, which relate to the performance of statute duty.
Citation	34 Geo. 3. c. 74
Territorial extent	Great Britain
Dates
Royal assent	11 June 1794
Commencement	29 September 1794 [e]
Repealed	20 March 1836
Other legislation
Amends	Highways Act 1773
Repealed by	Highway Act 1835
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1794 (34 Geo. 3. c. 74)

• The Highway Act 1835 (5 & 6 Will. 4. c. 50)

• The Highway (Railway Crossings) Act 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 45)

• The Highway Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. 61)

• The Highway Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. 61)

• The Highway Act 1864 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 101)

• The Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 77)

• The Highway Rate Assessment and Expenditure Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 27)

• The Highway Act Amendment Act 1885 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 13)

• The Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 77)

• The Special Roads Act 1949 (12, 13 & 14 Geo. 6. c. 32)

Highways Act 1959 [i]
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to consolidate with amendments certain enactments relating to highways, streets and bridges in England and Wales, including certain enactments commonly contained in local Acts, and to make consequential amendments of the common law.
Citation	7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 25
Territorial extent	England and Wales [j]
Dates
Royal assent	30 April 1959
Commencement	1 January 1960 [k]
Repealed	1 January 1981
Other legislation
Amends	Towns Improvement Clauses Act 1847
Repeals/revokes	Bridges Act 1530 Bridges Act 1702 County Rates Act 1738 Bridges Act 1740 Highways Act 1773 Bridges Act 1803 Bridges Act 1812 Bridges Act 1814 Bridges Act 1815 Highway Act 1841 South Wales Highways Act 1860 Highway Act 1862 Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act 1865 Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act 1870 South Wales Highway Act Amendment Act 1878 County Bridges Loans Extension Act 1880 South Wales Bridges Act 1881 South Wales Turnpike Roads Amendment Act 1882 Highway Act Amendment Act 1885 Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1890 Highways and Bridges Act 1891 Private Street Works Act 1892 Barbed Wire Act 1893 Roads Improvement Act 1925 Bridges Act 1929 Rights of Way Act 1932 New Streets Act 1951 New Streets Act 1951 (Amendment) Act 1957
Repealed by	Highways Act 1980
Status: Repealed
Text of statute as originally enacted

• The Highways Act 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 25)

• The Highways (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1961 (9 & 10 Eliz. 2. c. 63)

• The Highways (Amendment) Act 1965 (c. 30)

• The Highways Act 1971 (c. 41)

• The Highways Act 1980 (c. 66)

Highways (Amendment) Act 1986 [l] }
Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to amend the Highways Act 1980 so as to impose penalties in cases where a user of a highway is injured, interrupted or endangered in consequence of the lighting of a fire on the highway or elsewhere.
Citation	1986 c. 13
Territorial extent	England and Wales [m]
Dates
Royal assent	2 May 1986
Commencement	2 July 1986 [n]
Other legislation
Amends	Highways Act 1980
Status: Current legislation
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended
Text of the Highways (Amendment) Act 1986 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

• The Highways (Amendment) Act 1986 (c. 13)

• The Highways (Obstruction by Body Corporate) Act 2004 (c. 29)

The Highway Acts 1835 to 1885 was the collective title of the following Acts: ^[2]

• The Highway Act 1835
• The Highway Act 1862
• The Highway Act 1863
• The Highway Act 1864
• The Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act 1878
• The Highway Rate Assessment and Expenditure Act 1882
• The Highway Act Amendment Act 1885

United States

• Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956
• Federal Aid Highway Act of 1973
• Federal-Aid Highway Act (disambiguation page)
• National Highway System Designation Act of 1995

See also

• List of short titles

Notes

1. Start of session.
2. This is the citation in The Statutes of the Realm
3. This is the citation in The Statutes at Large
4. Start of session.
5. Section 1.
6. Start of session.
7. Section 1. 7 years.
8. The Acts of Parliament (Commencement) Act 1793.
9. Section 313.
10. Section 313.
11. Section 313.
12. Section 2(1).
13. Section 2(4).
14. Section 2(2).

References

1. "The National Highways Act, 1956".
2. The Short Titles Act 1896, section 2(1) and Schedule 2