Local Government (Highways) Act 1982

In this Part, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires – frontager, used in respect of a scheme, means the owner of any land liable under a scheme to contribute to the cost of the carrying out of the street works provided for in the scheme; scheme means a scheme under this Part for the carrying out of street works; section of a street means – the carriage-way; the drains and kerbs; or the footpaths – of the street; street means a way the land adjoining the boundaries of which, or adjoining the boundary of which on one side, is continuously, or almost continuously, built up or laid out or intended to be built up or laid out for building; street works has the meaning assigned to that expression by section 67(1).

In this Part, except in so far as the context or subject-matter otherwise indicates or requires, a reference to a street includes a reference to a section of a street.