The Humber Bridge (Debts) Act 1996 is an Act of the

Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprema ...

. The purpose of the Act was to give power to the Secretary of State for Transport to write off debts payable to the British Government by the Humber Bridge Board, operators of the Humber Bridge. The Act was necessary as the board had accumulated debts of £439 million by 1997. The Act allowed the Secretary of State to reorganise the board's debts, and write off sufficient amount of debt to allow the board to continue to maintain the Humber Bridge, a vital transport link for

Humberside Humberside () was a Non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan and Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in Northern England from 1 April 1974 until 1 April 1996. It was composed of land from either side of the Humber Estuary, create ...

. This reduced the amount of debt to £333 million soon afterwards and resulted in calls for all tolls across the bridge to be abolished.

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1996 in England Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning England Humberside United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1996 {{UK-statute-stub