CASE OF OUZOUNIAN BARRET v. CYPRUS

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<part xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0" xmlns:ukl="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" xmlns:uk="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/UK-AKN" eId="part-1"><num>Part 1</num><heading>Traffic Officers</heading><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-1-crossheading-traffic-officers-for-england-and-for-wales"><heading>Traffic officers for England and for Wales</heading><section eId="section-1"><num>1</num><heading>Traffic officers: introduction</heading><subsection eId="section-1-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>This Part makes provision for the designation of individuals as traffic officers by, or under an authorisation given by, the Secretary of State or the Assembly.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-1-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>The duties assigned to traffic officers must be connected with, or intended to facilitate or to be conducive or incidental to—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-1-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the management of traffic on the relevant road network; or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-1-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the performance of any other functions of the appropriate national authority (in its capacity as a traffic authority or highway authority).</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-1-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>In subsection (2) “the relevant road network” means—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-1-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the network of relevant roads in England (in the case of traffic officers designated by, or under an authorisation given by, the Secretary of State); or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-1-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the network of relevant roads in Wales (in the case of traffic officers designated by, or under an authorisation given by, the Assembly).</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-1-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>Traffic officers shall have such special powers (for use in connection with the performance of their duties) as are referred to in section 5(1).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-1-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>In this Part “relevant road” means a road in England for which the Secretary of State is the traffic authority or a road in Wales for which the Assembly is the traffic authority.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-2"><num>2</num><heading>Designation of traffic officers</heading><subsection eId="section-2-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>The appropriate national authority may—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-2-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>designate individuals as traffic officers; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-2-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>authorise another person to designate individuals as traffic officers.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-2-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>An authorisation under subsection (1)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-2-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>must be given (and may be varied or withdrawn) in writing; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-2-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>may be given subject to such limitations and conditions as the appropriate national authority thinks appropriate.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-2-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>The designation of an individual as a traffic officer must be made (and may be withdrawn) in writing.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-2-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>A designation may provide that it is to remain in force (unless it is withdrawn or otherwise ceases to have effect) for a specified period.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-2-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>A traffic officer designated under an authorisation must be employed by, or by a person providing services to, the authorised person.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-2-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>An individual designated under an authorisation shall cease to be a traffic officer if the person who appointed him either withdraws his designation or ceases to be authorised.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-2-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority may direct an authorised person to withdraw immediately the designation of all or any of the individuals who have been designated by that person.</p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-1-crossheading-jurisdiction-and-powers-of-traffic-officers"><heading>Jurisdiction and powers of traffic officers</heading><section eId="section-3"><num>3</num><heading>Jurisdiction of traffic officers</heading><subsection eId="section-3-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>A traffic officer has jurisdiction—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-3-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>over any relevant road in England (if he was designated by, or under an authorisation given by, the Secretary of State); or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-3-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>over any relevant road in Wales (if he was designated by, or under an authorisation given by, the Assembly),</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>unless his designation provides that this subsection does not apply to him.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-3-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>If subsection (1) does not apply to a traffic officer, he has jurisdiction only over such relevant roads, or relevant roads of such descriptions, as may be specified in his designation.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-4"><num>4</num><heading>Powers to direct traffic officers</heading><subsection eId="section-4-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>A traffic officer shall, when carrying out his duties, comply with any direction of a constable.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-4-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>Subject to that, a traffic officer designated by an authorised person shall, when carrying out his duties, comply with any direction of the appropriate national authority.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-5"><num>5</num><heading>The special powers of a traffic officer</heading><subsection eId="section-5-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>For the purposes of this Part the special powers of a traffic officer are the following—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-5-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>powers conferred by sections 6 and 7;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-5-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>powers conferred by orders under section 8; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-5-1-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>powers conferred by or under any other Act which are expressed to be special powers for the purposes of this section.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-5-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>The exercise of those powers is subject to the following restrictions.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-5-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>Those powers may only be exercised for one or more of the following purposes—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-5-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>maintaining or improving the movement of traffic on a relevant road over which the traffic officer has jurisdiction by virtue of section 3;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-5-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>preventing or reducing the effect of anything causing (or which has the potential to cause) congestion or other disruption to the movement of traffic on such a road;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-5-3-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>avoiding danger to persons or other traffic using such a road (or preventing risks of any such danger arising);</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-5-3-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>preventing damage to, or to anything on or near, such a road;</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>or for a purpose incidental to any of those purposes.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-5-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>Subject to that, those powers may be exercised—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-5-4-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>on or in relation to any relevant road over which the traffic officer has jurisdiction to act by virtue of section 3; or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-5-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>if the condition specified in subsection (5) is met, on or in relation to any other road in England and Wales.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-5-5"><num>(5)</num><intro><p>The condition is that the traffic officer is acting—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-5-5-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>at the direction of the chief officer of police for the area in which the road is situated; or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-5-5-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>with the consent of the traffic authority for the road.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-5-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>A traffic officer may not exercise his special powers on a road unless he is in uniform.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-6"><num>6</num><heading>Powers to stop or direct traffic</heading><subsection eId="section-6-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>This section confers the following powers on a traffic officer—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-6-1-a"><num>(a)</num><intro><p>a power, when the traffic officer is engaged in the regulation of traffic in a road, to direct a person driving or propelling a vehicle—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-6-1-a-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>to stop the vehicle, or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-6-1-a-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>to make it proceed in, or keep to, a particular line of traffic;</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="section-6-1-b"><num>(b)</num><intro><p>a power, for the purposes of a traffic survey of any description which is being carried out on or in the vicinity of a road, to direct a person driving or propelling a vehicle—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-6-1-b-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>to stop the vehicle, or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-6-1-b-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>to make it proceed in, or keep to, a particular line of traffic, or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-6-1-b-iii"><num>(iii)</num><content><p>to proceed to a particular point on or near the road on which the vehicle is being driven or propelled;</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>(subject to the restriction in section 35(3) of the Road Traffic Act <ref eId="c00001" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/52">1988 (c. 52)</ref>);</p></wrapUp></level><level class="para1" eId="section-6-1-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>a power, when the traffic officer is engaged in the regulation of vehicular traffic in a road, to direct persons on foot (or such persons and other traffic) to stop;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-6-1-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>a power to direct a person driving a mechanically propelled vehicle, or riding a cycle, on a road to stop the vehicle or cycle.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-6-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>In section 35 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (drivers to comply with traffic directions)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-6-2-a"><num>(a)</num><intro><p>in subsection (1)—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-6-2-a-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>after “a constable” there is inserted “or traffic officer”;</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-6-2-a-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>after “duty” there is inserted “or the traffic officer (as the case may be)”;</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="section-6-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in subsection (2)(b) after “constable” there is inserted “or traffic officer”.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-6-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>In section 37 of that Act (directions to pedestrians)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-6-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>after “uniform” there is inserted “or traffic officer”;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-6-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>after “duty” there is inserted “or the traffic officer (as the case may be)”.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-6-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>In section 163 of that Act (power of police to stop vehicles), in subsections (1) and (2) after “uniform” there is inserted “or a traffic officer”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-6-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>In Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act <ref eId="c00002" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1988/53">1988 (c. 53)</ref> (prosecution and punishment of offences under the Traffic Acts), in column 5 of the entry relating to section 35 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 after “constable” there is inserted “, traffic officer”.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-7"><num>7</num><heading>Powers to place temporary traffic signs</heading><subsection eId="section-7-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>A traffic officer has the powers of a constable under section 67(1) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act <ref eId="c00003" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/27">1984 (c. 27)</ref> (power in the case of emergencies and temporary obstructions etc. to place and temporarily maintain traffic signs on a road or on any structure on a road).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-7-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>The references in section 67(1) and (2) to powers conferred by subsection (1) of that section include a reference to the corresponding powers of a traffic officer by virtue of this section.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-8"><num>8</num><heading>Power to confer further special powers on traffic officers</heading><subsection eId="section-8-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority may by order made by statutory instrument confer further special powers on traffic officers.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-8-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>The national authority may not confer a further special power on traffic officers unless it is satisfied that the power is necessary for the purpose of facilitating the performance of any duties which may be assigned to traffic officers.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-8-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>The order may—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-8-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>provide for the enforcement of any special power conferred by the order (whether by the creation of a summary offence or otherwise);</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-8-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>make supplemental, incidental, transitional or consequential provision (including provision amending any Act or subordinate legislation).</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-8-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>An order under this section may not be made by the Secretary of State unless a draft of the order has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-9"><num>9</num><heading>Removal of certain vehicles by traffic officers</heading><subsection eId="section-9-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The power to make regulations under section 99 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act <ref eId="c00004" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/27">1984 (c. 27)</ref> includes, in relation to the removal of vehicles by traffic officers, power to make consequential provision.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-9-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>The provision which may be made by virtue of subsection (1) includes in particular provision—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-9-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>amending, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-9-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>applying in relation to vehicles removed by traffic officers (with or without modifications),</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>any provision of sections 100 to 102 of that Act (disposal of vehicles removed under section 99).</p></wrapUp></subsection></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-1-crossheading-miscellaneous-and-supplementary"><heading>Miscellaneous and supplementary</heading><section eId="section-10"><num>10</num><heading>Offences</heading><subsection eId="section-10-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>A person who assaults a traffic officer in the execution of his duties is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (or both).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-10-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>A person who resists or wilfully obstructs a traffic officer in the execution of his duties is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks or to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale (or both).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-10-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>A person who, with intent to deceive—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-10-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>impersonates a traffic officer,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-10-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>makes any statement or does any act calculated falsely to suggest that he is a traffic officer, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-10-3-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>makes any statement or does any act calculated falsely to suggest that he has powers as a traffic officer that exceed the powers he actually has,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>is guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 51 weeks or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale (or both).</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-10-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>A person to whom this subsection applies who fails to give his name and address to a traffic officer in uniform on being required to do so by that officer is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-10-5"><num>(5)</num><intro><p>Subsection (4) applies to a person whom the traffic officer reasonably believes to have been the driver of a vehicle at a time of a failure to comply with—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-10-5-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>a direction given in relation to that vehicle under a power conferred by section 6, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-10-5-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the indication given by a traffic sign placed under a power conferred by section 7.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-10-6"><num>(6)</num><intro><p>In the case of offences committed before the commencement of section 281(5) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-10-6-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>subsections (1) and (3) apply as if for “51 weeks” there were substituted “six months”; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-10-6-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>subsection (2) applies as if for “51 weeks” there were substituted “one month”.</p></content></level></subsection></section><section eId="section-11"><num>11</num><heading>Uniform</heading><content><p>The appropriate national authority shall determine the uniform for traffic officers designated by, or under an authorisation given by, that authority.</p></content></section><section eId="section-12"><num>12</num><heading>Power to charge for traffic officer services provided on request</heading><content><p>The appropriate national authority may, at the request of any person, agree to arrange for the services of a traffic officer to be provided to that person subject to the payment of a charge.</p></content></section><section eId="section-13"><num>13</num><heading>Power to acquire land</heading><content><p><mod>In the Highways Act <ref eId="c00005" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/66">1980 (c. 66)</ref>, after section 245 (acquisition of land for buildings etc. required for discharge of functions of highway authority) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>245A</num><heading>Acquisition of land by Secretary of State or Assembly for buildings etc. needed for traffic management purposes</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><intro><p>The Secretary of State may acquire land which in his opinion is required for the provision of any buildings or facilities which are needed—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>for use by, or in connection with the activities of, traffic officers in England; or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>for other purposes connected with the management of traffic on highways in England for which he is the highway authority.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><intro><p>The National Assembly for Wales may acquire land which in its opinion is required for the provision of any buildings or facilities which are needed—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>for use by, or in connection with the activities of, traffic officers in Wales; or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>for other purposes connected with the management of traffic on highways in Wales for which it is the highway authority.</p></content></level></subsection></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></section><section eId="section-14"><num>14</num><heading>Financial assistance to authorised persons</heading><content><p>The appropriate national authority may give financial assistance to an authorised person, in such form and on such terms as it considers appropriate, in respect of the traffic officers designated by that person (including financial assistance in respect of equipment, accommodation or other facilities provided for those traffic officers).</p></content></section><section eId="section-15"><num>15</num><heading>Interpretation of Part 1</heading><intro><p>In this Part—</p></intro><hcontainer name="definition"><intro><p>“the appropriate national authority” means—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the Secretary of State, as respects England; and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the Assembly, as respects Wales;</p></content></level></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“the Assembly” means the National Assembly for Wales;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“authorised person” means a person who is authorised under section 2;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“designation” means designation as a traffic officer under section 2;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“relevant road” has the meaning given by section 1(5);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“road” means any length of highway or of any other road to which the public has access, and includes bridges over which a road passes;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“traffic authority” has same meaning as in the Road Traffic Regulation Act <ref eId="c00006" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/27">1984 (c. 27)</ref>;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“traffic officer” means an individual designated under section 2.</p></content></hcontainer></section></hcontainer></part>
<part xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0" xmlns:ukl="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" eId="part-2"><num>Part 2</num><heading>Network management by local traffic authorities</heading><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-2-crossheading-general-duties-relating-to-network-management"><heading>General duties relating to network management</heading><section eId="section-16"><num>16</num><heading>The network management duty</heading><subsection eId="section-16-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>It is the duty of a local traffic authority to manage their road network with a view to achieving, so far as may be reasonably practicable having regard to their other obligations, policies and objectives, the following objectives—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-16-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>securing the expeditious movement of traffic on the authority’s road network; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-16-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>facilitating the expeditious movement of traffic on road networks for which another authority is the traffic authority.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-16-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>The action which the authority may take in performing that duty includes, in particular, any action which they consider will contribute to securing—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-16-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the more efficient use of their road network; or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-16-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the avoidance, elimination or reduction of road congestion or other disruption to the movement of traffic on their road network or a road network for which another authority is the traffic authority;</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>and may involve the exercise of any power to regulate or co-ordinate the uses made of any road (or part of a road) in the road network (whether or not the power was conferred on them in their capacity as a traffic authority).</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-16-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>In this Part “network management duty”, in relation to a local traffic authority, means their duty under this section.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-17"><num>17</num><heading>Arrangements for network management</heading><subsection eId="section-17-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>A local traffic authority shall make such arrangements as they consider appropriate for planning and carrying out the action to be taken in performing the network management duty.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-17-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>The arrangements must include provision for the appointment of a person (to be known as the “traffic manager”) to perform such tasks as the authority consider will assist them to perform their network management duty.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-17-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>The traffic manager may (but need not) be an employee of the authority.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-17-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>The arrangements must include provision for establishing processes for ensuring (so far as may be reasonably practicable) that the authority—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-17-4-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>identify things (including future occurrences) which are causing, or which have the potential to cause, road congestion or other disruption to the movement of traffic on their road network; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-17-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>consider any possible action that could be taken in response to (or in anticipation of) anything so identified;</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>but nothing in this subsection is to be taken to require the identification or consideration of anything appearing to have only an insignificant effect (or potential effect) on the movement of traffic on their road network.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-17-5"><num>(5)</num><intro><p>The arrangements must include provision for ensuring that the authority—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-17-5-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>determine specific policies or objectives in relation to different roads or classes of road in their road network;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-17-5-b"><num>(b)</num><intro><p>monitor the effectiveness of—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-17-5-b-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>the authority’s organisation and decision-making processes; and</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-17-5-b-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>the implementation of their decisions; and</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="section-17-5-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>assess their performance in managing their road network.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-17-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>The authority must keep under review the effectiveness of the arrangements they have in place under this section.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-18"><num>18</num><heading>Guidance to local traffic authorities</heading><subsection eId="section-18-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority may publish guidance to local traffic authorities about the techniques of network management or any other matter relating to the performance of the duties imposed by sections 16 and 17.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-18-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>In performing those duties a local traffic authority shall have regard to any such guidance.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-19"><num>19</num><heading>Power to require information relating to network management</heading><subsection eId="section-19-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority may direct a local traffic authority to provide it, within a specified period, with specified information connected with any aspect of the performance of their duties under sections 16 and 17.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-19-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>The information that may be specified in such a direction—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-19-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>must be information which the authority have in their possession or can reasonably be expected to acquire; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-19-2-b"><num>(b)</num><intro><p>includes, in particular, information relating to—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-19-2-b-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>the management of a local traffic authority’s road network; or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-19-2-b-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>the use of their road network by different kinds of traffic or the effects of that use.</p></content></level></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-19-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>A direction under this section may be given to two or more local traffic authorities or to local traffic authorities of a description specified in the direction.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-19-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>A direction under this section given to a London authority must be copied to the Mayor.</p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-2-crossheading-enforcement-of-network-management-duties"><heading>Enforcement of network management duties</heading><section eId="section-20"><num>20</num><heading>Intervention notices</heading><subsection eId="section-20-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>If the appropriate national authority considers that a local traffic authority may be failing properly to perform any of their duties under sections 16 and 17 it may give a notice stating that it is of that opinion (an “intervention notice”) to the authority.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-20-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>An intervention notice must—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-20-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>give brief particulars of the grounds for giving the notice; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-20-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>offer the local traffic authority the opportunity (within a specified period) to make representations or proposals about any matter raised by the notice.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-20-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>The notice may also require the local traffic authority to provide the national authority, within the period specified under subsection (2)(b), with specified information.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-20-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>Any information specified in the notice must be information that the national authority considers will assist it in deciding what further action (if any) to take.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-20-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State shall consult the Mayor before giving an intervention notice to a London authority and, if such a notice is given, shall give him a copy of it.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-21"><num>21</num><heading>Intervention orders</heading><subsection eId="section-21-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>If the appropriate national authority is satisfied that a local traffic authority are failing properly to perform any duty under sections 16 and 17 it may, by order made by statutory instrument (an “intervention order”), make provision for or in connection with the appointment of a traffic director.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-21-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>In this Part “traffic director” means a person appointed by the national authority with such objectives as the national authority considers will secure that the duty in question is properly performed.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-21-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>An intervention order providing for the appointment of a traffic director must (among other things)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-21-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>state that the national authority is satisfied as mentioned in subsection (1);</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-21-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>give brief particulars of the grounds for appointing a traffic director;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-21-3-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>set out the objectives of the traffic director; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-21-3-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>confer such general powers on the traffic director as the national authority considers appropriate for achieving those objectives.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-21-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>But such an order may not be made unless—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-21-4-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>reasonable notice of the grounds for appointing a traffic director has been given to the local traffic authority in an intervention notice; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-21-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the period specified in the notice under section 20(2)(b) has expired;</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>but if that period has expired an order may be made whether or not the local traffic authority have complied with any requirements specified under section 20(3).</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-21-5"><num>(5)</num><intro><p>The general powers which may be conferred on the traffic director are powers authorising him—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-21-5-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>to monitor any matter;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-21-5-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>to report on any matter;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-21-5-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>to intervene in activities of the local traffic authority; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-21-5-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>to carry out functions of the local traffic authority.</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>The general powers are explained further in sections 23 to 25.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-21-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>The order may require the traffic director to carry out functions of the local traffic authority.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-21-7"><num>(7)</num><intro><p>The order may—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-21-7-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>limit the scope of any general powers conferred on the traffic director or any duty imposed under subsection (6);</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-21-7-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>confer ancillary powers on the traffic director;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-21-7-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>provide for the circumstances in which any general or ancillary power may (or may not) be exercised;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-21-7-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>impose conditions on the exercise of any general or ancillary power;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-21-7-e"><num>(e)</num><content><p>make incidental or supplementary provision;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-21-7-f"><num>(f)</num><content><p>make different provision for different circumstances.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-21-8"><num>(8)</num><intro><p>For the purposes of subsection (7) “ancillary power” means a power to do anything calculated to facilitate (or to be conducive or incidental to)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-21-8-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the exercise by the traffic director of his general powers; or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-21-8-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the performance of any duty imposed on him under subsection (6),</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>including, in particular, power to require the local traffic authority to provide him with information and assistance.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-21-9"><num>(9)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority shall consult the local traffic authority before making an intervention order which makes further provision in connection with the appointment of a traffic director under an earlier intervention order.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-21-10"><num>(10)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State shall consult the Mayor before making an intervention order in relation to a London authority.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-22"><num>22</num><heading>Appointment of traffic director: supplementary</heading><subsection eId="section-22-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>Where by virtue of an intervention order a traffic director is to be appointed in relation to a local traffic authority—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-22-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>any person (including the national authority making the order, another local traffic authority, a Passenger Transport Executive or any other public authority) may be appointed;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-22-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the appointment may be made on such terms as that national authority may consider appropriate; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-22-1-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>the appointment may be revoked by that national authority.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-22-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>The powers conferred by subsection (1) have effect subject to the provisions of the order.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-22-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>Notice of any appointment of a traffic director (or the revocation of an appointment) shall be given to the local traffic authority and, in the case of a London authority, to the Mayor.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-22-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>Any such notice of an appointment must be given before the traffic director begins to carry out any of his duties.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-23"><num>23</num><heading>Monitoring and reporting</heading><subsection eId="section-23-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The general powers which may be conferred by an intervention order under section 21(5)(a) are powers to monitor anything connected with the performance by the local traffic authority of their duties under 16 and 17, including the use of their road network by different kinds of traffic or the effects of that use.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-23-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>The general powers which may be conferred by an intervention order under section 21(5)(b) are powers to make reports about—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-23-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>anything connected with the carrying out of the traffic director’s objectives; or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-23-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>anything connected with the performance by the local traffic authority of their duties under sections 16 and 17, including the use of their road network by different kinds of traffic or the effects of that use.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-23-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>The order may provide for such reports to be made to the appropriate national authority or the local traffic authority (or both).</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-24"><num>24</num><heading>Intervention in activities of local traffic authority</heading><subsection eId="section-24-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>This section explains the general powers which may be conferred by an intervention order under section 21(5)(c).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-24-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>Such powers may authorise the traffic director to give to the local traffic authority directions with respect to the exercise of any specified function, including in particular directions—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-24-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>to exercise (or to cease or refrain from exercising) such a function;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-24-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>as to the way in which such a function is (or is not) to be exercised;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-24-2-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>as to the policies to be adopted in the exercise of any function.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-24-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>The order may specify any function of the authority (whether or not conferred in their capacity as a traffic authority) the exercise of which appears to the appropriate national authority to be capable of contributing to, or interfering with, the achievement of the traffic director’s objectives.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-24-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>Such powers may also authorise the traffic director, where it appears to him that the authority has failed to comply with a direction—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-24-4-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>to take any steps which still remain to be taken by the authority to comply with the direction, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-24-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>recover from the authority as a civil debt the costs reasonably incurred by him in taking those steps.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-24-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>Anything done by the traffic director under subsection (4)(a) is to be treated as having been done by the authority.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-25"><num>25</num><heading>Exercise of local traffic authority functions</heading><subsection eId="section-25-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>This section explains the general powers which may be conferred by an intervention order under section 21(5)(d) and the duty which may be imposed under section 21(6).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-25-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>The order may authorise or require the traffic director to take over from the authority the exercise of any specified function.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-25-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>The order may specify any function of the authority (whether or not conferred in their capacity as a traffic authority) the exercise of which appears to the appropriate national authority to be capable of contributing to, or interfering with, the achievement of the traffic director’s objectives.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-25-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>The order may require the authority to take action—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-25-4-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>to co-ordinate their activities with those of the traffic director in the exercise of functions specified under subsection (2);</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-25-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>to co-operate with the traffic director in the exercise of such functions.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-25-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>Anything done by the traffic director in the exercise of a specified function is to be treated as having been done by the authority.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-26"><num>26</num><heading>Application of sections 20 to 25 to local traffic authorities exercising functions jointly</heading><subsection eId="section-26-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority may by order made by statutory instrument make provision for the application of sections 20 to 25 (with or without modifications) in cases where to any extent the performance of the duties under sections 16 and 17 is carried out jointly by two or more local traffic authorities.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-26-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>A statutory instrument containing an order under this section made by the Secretary of State is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution by either House of Parliament.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-27"><num>27</num><heading>Criteria for making intervention orders</heading><subsection eId="section-27-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority shall give, in accordance with subsection (2), guidance about the criteria which it proposes to apply for the purpose of deciding whether to give an intervention notice or make an intervention order.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-27-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>The guidance shall be appended to an order made by the authority by statutory instrument.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-27-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>A statutory instrument containing an order under subsection (2) made by the Secretary of State is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-28"><num>28</num><heading>Guidance to traffic directors</heading><subsection eId="section-28-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority may give guidance to traffic directors in relation to the performance of their duties.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-28-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>Such guidance may be general or given to a particular traffic director.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-28-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>In carrying out his duties a traffic director shall have regard to any guidance under this section which is applicable to him.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-28-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority shall publish any guidance given under this section.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-29"><num>29</num><heading>Traffic directors in London</heading><subsection eId="section-29-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Subsections (2) to (4) apply where a traffic director is appointed in relation to a London authority.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-29-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>A copy of any report made by a traffic director to the authority shall be given to the Mayor.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-29-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>In carrying out his duties the traffic director need not comply with, or have regard to, any directions or guidance given by the Mayor under Part 4 of the Greater London Authority Act <ref eId="c00007" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1999/29">1999 (c. 29)</ref>.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-29-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>The duty to comply with a direction given by the traffic director prevails, to the extent of any inconsistency, over the duty to comply with, or have regard to, any direction or guidance mentioned in subsection (3).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-29-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>Subsections (6) to (8) apply where a traffic director is appointed in relation to Transport for London.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-29-6"><num>(6)</num><intro><p>If the traffic director—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-29-6-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>exercises the power of Transport for London under subsection (3) of section 301A of the Highways Act <ref eId="c00008" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/66">1980 (c. 66)</ref> to object to a proposal and does not withdraw that objection, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-29-6-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>directs Transport for London to exercise the power to object to a proposal and not to withdraw the objection,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>that section has effect as if subsections (3)(d) and (4) were omitted.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-29-7"><num>(7)</num><intro><p>If the traffic director—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-29-7-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>exercises the power of Transport for London under subsection (3) of section 121B of the Road Traffic Regulation Act <ref eId="c00009" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/27">1984 (c. 27)</ref> to object to a proposal and does not withdraw that objection, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-29-7-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>directs Transport for London to exercise the power to object to a proposal and not to withdraw the objection,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>that section has effect as if subsections (3)(d) and (4) were omitted.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-29-8"><num>(8)</num><intro><p>While the intervention order to which the appointment relates is in force the Mayor may not, without the consent of the traffic director, issue a direction under—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-29-8-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>section 301A(9) of the Highways Act 1980, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-29-8-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>section 121B(9) of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>dispensing with any of the requirements mentioned there (whether or not by varying an existing direction).</p></wrapUp></subsection></section><section eId="section-30"><num>30</num><heading>Recovery of costs from local traffic authorities</heading><subsection eId="section-30-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>This section applies where a traffic director has been appointed in respect of a local traffic authority.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-30-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority may recover from the local traffic authority such sum or sums as it may consider appropriate.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-30-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>The amount recovered must not exceed the total expenditure of the national authority which is attributable to the appointment of the traffic director (including expenditure towards any costs incurred by the traffic director which are not met from any other source).</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-31"><num>31</num><heading>Interpretation of Part 2</heading><intro><p>In this Part—</p></intro><hcontainer name="definition"><intro><p>“appropriate national authority” means—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the Secretary of State, as respects England; and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the National Assembly for Wales, as respects Wales;</p></content></level></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“intervention notice” means a notice under section 20;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“intervention order” means an order under section 21;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“local traffic authority” means a traffic authority other than the Secretary of State or the National Assembly for Wales;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“London authority” means Transport for London, a London borough Council or the Common Council of the City of London;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“Mayor” means the Mayor of London;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“road” means any length of highway or of any other road to which the public has access, and includes bridges over which a road passes;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“road network”, in relation to a local traffic authority, means the network of roads for which the authority is the traffic authority;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“traffic” includes pedestrians;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“traffic authority” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Regulation Act <ref eId="c00010" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/27">1984 (c. 27)</ref>;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“network management duty” has the meaning given in section 16(3).</p></content></hcontainer></section></hcontainer></part>
<part xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0" eId="part-3"><num>Part 3</num><heading>Permit Schemes</heading><section eId="section-32"><num>32</num><heading>Meaning of “permit scheme”</heading><subsection eId="section-32-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Any reference in this Part to a permit scheme is a reference to a scheme which is designed to control the carrying out of specified works in specified streets in a specified area.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-32-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>A permit scheme may (in particular) include provision—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-32-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>for or in connection with requiring a permit to be obtained before specified works are carried out (including provision as to the persons who are required to obtain permits),</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-32-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>for or in connection with the issue of permits (including provision with respect to applications for permits, provision for cases in which there is to be an entitlement to the issue of a permit and provision with respect to cases in which permits are to be deemed to be issued),</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-32-2-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>as to cases in which specified works may be carried out without a permit,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-32-2-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>for or in connection with the imposition of conditions which are to apply in relation to the carrying out of specified works (including provision for or in connection with the attachment of such conditions to permits),</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-32-2-e"><num>(e)</num><content><p>for or in connection with the review or variation of permits or such conditions (including provision with respect to applications for such variations).</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-32-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>In this section “specified” means specified, or of a description specified, in a permit scheme.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-33"><num>33</num><heading>Preparation of permit schemes</heading><subsection eId="section-33-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>A local highway authority, or two or more such authorities acting together, may prepare and submit to the appropriate national authority a permit scheme.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-33-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority may direct a local highway authority, or two or more such authorities acting together, to prepare and submit to the national authority a permit scheme which takes such form as the national authority may direct.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-33-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority, in its capacity as a highway authority, may prepare a permit scheme.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-33-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State, in his capacity as the person with responsibility for the management and control of streets in the Royal Parks, may prepare a permit scheme in respect of any such streets.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-33-5"><num>(5)</num><intro><p>Those preparing permit schemes—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-33-5-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>must comply with permit regulations, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-33-5-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>must have regard to any guidance which may be issued by the appropriate national authority.</p></content></level></subsection></section><section eId="section-34"><num>34</num><heading>Implementation of local highway authority permit schemes</heading><subsection eId="section-34-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>This section applies where a permit scheme is prepared and submitted to the appropriate national authority (“the authority”) in accordance with section 33(1) or (2).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-34-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>The authority may approve the scheme with or without modifications.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-34-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>Where it approves the scheme with modifications, references in subsections (4) and (5) to the scheme are to be read as references to the scheme as so modified.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-34-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>The scheme shall not have effect unless the authority by order gives effect to it.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-34-5"><num>(5)</num><intro><p>An order under subsection (4)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-34-5-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>must set out the scheme and specify the date on which the scheme is to come into effect, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-34-5-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>may (in accordance with permit regulations) include provisions which disapply or modify enactments to the extent specified in the order.</p></content></level></subsection></section><section eId="section-35"><num>35</num><heading>Implementation of other permit schemes</heading><subsection eId="section-35-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>This section applies where a permit scheme is prepared in accordance with section 33(3) or (4).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-35-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>The scheme shall not have effect unless the appropriate national authority by order gives effect to it.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-35-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>An order under subsection (2)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-35-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>must set out the scheme and specify the date on which the scheme is to come into effect, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-35-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>may (in accordance with permit regulations) include provisions which disapply or modify enactments to the extent specified in the order.</p></content></level></subsection></section><section eId="section-36"><num>36</num><heading>Variation and revocation of permit schemes</heading><subsection eId="section-36-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority may by order vary or revoke any permit scheme which for the time being has effect.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-36-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>An order under this section—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-36-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>may relate to one or more permit schemes,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-36-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>may vary or revoke any order under section 34 or 35, or any order previously made under this section,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-36-2-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>may (in accordance with permit regulations) include provisions which disapply or modify enactments to the extent specified in the order.</p></content></level></subsection></section><section eId="section-37"><num>37</num><heading>Permit regulations</heading><subsection eId="section-37-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority may by regulations (“permit regulations”) make provision with respect to the content, preparation, submission, approval, operation, variation or revocation of permit schemes.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-37-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>Permit regulations may—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-37-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>set out procedural provisions with which those preparing permit schemes must comply,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>set out standard provisions which may or must be included in a permit scheme,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-2-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>make provision as to the publicity to be given to permit schemes.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-37-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>Permit regulations may make provision—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-37-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>with respect to any of the matters mentioned in section 32(2) (including provision as to the conditions or types of conditions which may be imposed by virtue of section 32(2)(d)),</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>for the purpose of limiting the streets, or type of streets, which may be the subject of a permit scheme.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-37-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>Permit regulations may make provision—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-37-4-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>as to the criteria to be taken into account in the case of decisions with respect to the issue, review or variation of permits or decisions with respect to the imposition, review or variation of conditions,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>for or in connection with the determination, or facilitating the determination, of disputes (including provision with respect to the appointment of persons to determine, or facilitate the determination of, disputes),</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-4-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>for or in connection with appeals (including provision with respect to the appointment of persons to hear appeals),</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-4-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>as to the action which may be taken if works are carried out without a permit or if any conditions are not complied with,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-4-e"><num>(e)</num><content><p>for or in connection with the creation, in prescribed cases (including prescribed cases where works are carried out without a permit or in breach of any conditions), of a criminal offence triable summarily and punishable with a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-4-f"><num>(f)</num><content><p>for or in connection with excluding or limiting the liability of prescribed undertakers in prescribed cases.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-37-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>Provision under subsection (4) in respect of adjudication may not be made without the consent of the Lord Chancellor.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-37-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>Permit regulations may make provision for or in connection with the giving of fixed penalty notices (including, in particular, provision applying Schedule 4B to the New Roads and Street Works Act <ref eId="c00011" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1991/22">1991 (c. 22)</ref>, with or without modifications) in relation to any offence created by permit regulations.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-37-7"><num>(7)</num><intro><p>Permit regulations may make provision for or in connection with the payment of a fee in respect of any one or more of the following—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-37-7-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>an application for a permit,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-7-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the issue of a permit,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-7-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>an application for the variation of a permit or the conditions attached to a permit,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-7-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>the variation of a permit or the conditions attached to a permit.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-37-8"><num>(8)</num><intro><p>Provision made under subsection (7) may include provision as to—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-37-8-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the amount or maximum amount of any fee,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-8-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>cases in which fees are not to be payable or are to be repaid,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-8-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>cases in which fees may be discounted,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-8-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>the time and manner of making payment of fees,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-8-e"><num>(e)</num><content><p>the application of sums paid by way of fees.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-37-9"><num>(9)</num><content><p>In making provision under subsection (7), the appropriate national authority must try to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that the fees payable in connection with permit schemes do not exceed such costs in connection with permit schemes as may be prescribed.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-37-10"><num>(10)</num><content><p>For the purposes of subsection (9), the national authority may rely on such estimates (including estimates with respect to the average costs of highway authorities or particular descriptions of highway authority) as the national authority thinks fit.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-37-11"><num>(11)</num><intro><p>Permit regulations may make provision—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-37-11-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>for or in connection with the creation and maintenance of registers of permits,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-11-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>with respect to access to information contained in any such registers (including provision restricting such access),</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-11-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>with respect to the keeping of accounts, and the preparation and publication of statements of account, relating to permit schemes.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-37-12"><num>(12)</num><content><p>Permit regulations may make provision for or in connection with permitting a highway authority, or two or more such authorities acting together, to prepare a permit scheme in respect of streets in a particular area which are maintainable highways notwithstanding that the authority, or those authorities, are not the highway authority for all or any of those streets.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-37-13"><num>(13)</num><intro><p>Permit regulations may set out provisions—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-37-13-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>which disapply or modify enactments, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-37-13-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>which are to or may apply in the case of permit schemes.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-37-14"><num>(14)</num><content><p>Nothing in subsections (2) to (13) is to be taken as affecting the generality of subsection (1).</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-38"><num>38</num><heading>Crown application</heading><subsection eId="section-38-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>This Part and any provisions made under it bind the Crown (but do not affect Her Majesty in her private capacity or in right of Her Duchy of Lancaster or the Duke of Cornwall).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-38-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>Nothing in subsection (1) is to be construed as authorising the bringing of proceedings for a criminal offence against a person acting on behalf of the Crown.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-39"><num>39</num><heading>Interpretation of Part 3</heading><subsection eId="section-39-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>In this Part—</p></intro><hcontainer name="definition"><intro><p>“the appropriate national authority” means—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the Secretary of State, as respects England, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the National Assembly for Wales, as respects Wales;</p></content></level></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“condition” is to be construed in accordance with section 32(2);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“enactment” includes an enactment comprised in subordinate legislation (within the meaning of the Interpretation Act <ref eId="c00012" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1978/30">1978 (c. 30)</ref>);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“fixed penalty notice” means a notice offering a person the opportunity of discharging any liability to conviction for an offence by payment of a penalty;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“highway authority” and “local highway authority” have the same meaning as in the Highways Act <ref eId="c00013" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/66">1980 (c. 66)</ref>;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“maintainable highway” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the New Roads and Street Works Act <ref eId="c00014" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1991/22">1991 (c. 22)</ref>;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“permit” is to be construed in accordance with section 32(2);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“permit scheme” is to be construed in accordance with section 32;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“permit regulations” is to be construed in accordance with section 37;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“prescribed” means prescribed, or of a description prescribed, by regulations made by the appropriate national authority;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“Royal Park” means any park to which the Parks Regulation Act <ref eId="c00015" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1872/15">1872 (c. 15)</ref> applies (see sections 1 and 3 of the Parks Regulation (Amendment) Act <ref eId="c00016" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1926/36">1926 (c. 36)</ref>);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><intro><p>“street” means a street (within the meaning of Part 3 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991)—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>which is a maintainable highway, or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>which is situated in a Royal Park;</p></content></level></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“street works” has the meaning given by section 48(3) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“undertaker” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of that Act;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><intro><p>“works” means—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>prescribed street works, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>such other works or activities as may be prescribed,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>but activities may not be prescribed under paragraph (b) unless they are, or correspond to, activities which are regulated or controlled by the Highways Act 1980.</p></wrapUp></hcontainer></subsection><subsection eId="section-39-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>An order or regulations under this Part—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-39-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>may make different provision for different cases or different areas,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-39-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>may include incidental, supplemental, consequential or transitional provision or savings.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-39-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>A power to make an order or regulations under this Part is exercisable by statutory instrument.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-39-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>The first permit regulations may not be made by the Secretary of State unless a draft of them has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-39-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>Subject to that, a statutory instrument containing regulations under this Part made by the Secretary of State is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</p></content></subsection></section></part>
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and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in any other case, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on that scale.</p></content></level></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-40-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>In section 74(7B) and 74A(11) of the 1991 Act (maximum fine for offences in regulations in respect of failure to comply with notice requirement) for “level 3” there is substituted “level 4”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-40-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p><mod>In section 88(6) of the 1991 Act (failure to comply with duties relating to street works affecting the structure of a bridge) for the words from “to a” to the end there is substituted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>in the case of an offence consisting of a failure to take all reasonably practicable steps to comply with subsection (5)(a), to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale; and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in any other case, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on that scale.</p></content></level></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-41"><num>41</num><heading>Fixed penalty offences</heading><subsection eId="section-41-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p><mod>After section 95 of the 1991 Act (offences) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>95A</num><heading>Fixed penalties for certain offences under this Part</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><content><p>Any offence under this Part relating to any street works which is listed in the first column of Schedule 4A (and described in general terms in the second column) is a fixed penalty offence for the purposes of this Part.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><content><p>Offences listed in that Schedule which are committed by virtue of section 166 (offences by bodies corporate and Scottish partnerships) are not fixed penalty offences.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(3)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may by order modify that Schedule so as to provide for offences under this Part relating to any street works to become (or cease to be) fixed penalty offences.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(4)</num><content><p>Such an order may not be made unless a draft of the order has been laid before and approved by resolution of each House of Parliament.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(5)</num><content><p>Schedule 4B (which makes provision about fixed penalties for fixed penalty offences) has effect.</p></content></subsection></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-41-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p><mod>In section 106 of that Act (index for Part 3), the following entry is inserted in the appropriate place—<quotedText startQuote="&#x201C;"/><quotedStructure endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><tblock class="table" ukl:Orientation="portrait"><foreign><default:table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" summary="This table displays a new entry to be inserted into the index of defined expressions. It displays the expression and specifies the section where the expression is defined or explained."><default:tbody><default:tr><default:td><p xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0">fixed penalty offence</p></default:td><default:td><p xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0">section 95A(1)</p></default:td></default:tr></default:tbody></default:table></foreign></tblock></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-41-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>After Schedule 4 to that Act there is inserted Schedules 4A and 4B as set out in Schedules 2 and 3 to this Act.</p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-4-crossheading-coordination-of-works-by-street-authority"><heading>Co-ordination of works by street authority</heading><section eId="section-42"><num>42</num><heading>Duty of street authority to co-ordinate works</heading><subsection eId="section-42-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Section 59 of the 1991 Act (general duty of street authority to co-ordinate works) is amended as follows.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-42-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>In subsection (1) after “purposes)” there is inserted “and the carrying out of relevant activities”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-42-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>In subsection (2) after “works” there is inserted “or relevant activities”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-42-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (6) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(7)</num><intro><p>In this section “relevant activities” means any activity, other than the execution of works in the street or the use of the street by traffic (including pedestrians), which—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>involves the temporary occupation or use of space in a street;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>is subject to regulation by the street authority by virtue of provision made by or under any Act other than this Act; and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>is prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.</p></content></level></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-4-crossheading-directionmaking-powers"><heading>Direction-making powers</heading><section eId="section-43"><num>43</num><heading>Directions relating to timing of street works</heading><subsection eId="section-43-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Section 56 of the 1991 Act (power to give directions as to timing of street works) is amended as follows.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-43-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>In subsection (1)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-43-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>in paragraph (b), after “at certain times” there is inserted “or on certain days (or at certain times on certain days)”;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-43-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>after “the times” there is inserted “or days (or both)”.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-43-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (1) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(1A)</num><intro><p>Where it appears to a street authority—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>that subsisting street works are causing or are likely to cause serious disruption to traffic, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>that the disruption would be avoided or reduced if the works were to continue to be carried out only at certain times or on certain days (or at certain times on certain days),</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>the authority may give the undertaker such directions as may be appropriate as to the times or days (or both) when the works may or may not continue to be carried out.</p></wrapUp></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-43-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (3) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(3A)</num><content><p>An undertaker shall be taken not to have failed to fulfil any statutory duty to afford a supply or service if, or to the extent that, his failure is attributable to a direction under this section.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-44"><num>44</num><heading>Directions as to placing of apparatus</heading><content><p><mod>In the 1991 Act, after section 56 there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>56A</num><heading>Power to give directions as to placing of apparatus</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><intro><p>Where—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>an undertaker is proposing to execute street works consisting of the placing of apparatus in a street (“street A”),</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>placing the apparatus in street A is likely to cause disruption to traffic, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><intro><p>it appears to the street authority that—</p></intro><level class="para2"><num>(i)</num><content><p>there is another street (“street B”) in which the apparatus could be placed, and</p></content></level><level class="para2"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>the conditions in subsection (2) are satisfied,</p></content></level></level><wrapUp><p>the authority may by direction require the undertaker not to place the apparatus in street A (but may not require him to place the apparatus in street B).</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><intro><p>The conditions referred to in subsection (1)(c) are that—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>disruption to traffic would be avoided or reduced if the apparatus were to be placed in street B;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>placing the apparatus in street B would be a reasonable way of achieving the purpose for which the apparatus is to be placed; and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>it is reasonable to require the undertaker not to place the apparatus in street A.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(3)</num><content><p>A direction under this section may be varied or revoked by a further such direction.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(4)</num><content><p>The procedure for giving a direction under this section shall be prescribed by the Secretary of State.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(5)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for appeals against directions under this section, including provision as to the persons who may determine appeals and the procedure to be followed on an appeal.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(6)</num><content><p>An undertaker who executes works in contravention of a direction under this section commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(7)</num><content><p>An undertaker shall be taken not to have failed to fulfil any statutory duty to afford a supply or service if, or to the extent that, his failure is attributable to a direction under this section.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(8)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may issue or approve for the purposes of this section a code of practice giving practical guidance as to the exercise by street authorities of the power conferred by this section; and in exercising that power a street authority shall have regard to the code of practice.</p></content></subsection></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-4-crossheading-records-and-information"><heading>Records and information</heading><section eId="section-45"><num>45</num><heading>The street works register</heading><subsection eId="section-45-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Section 53 of the 1991 Act (the street works register) is amended as follows.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-45-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>In subsection (1)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-45-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>after “respect to” (in the second place they appear) there is inserted “(a)”; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-45-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p><mod>at the end there is added <quotedText startQuote="&#x201C;">; and</quotedText><quotedStructure endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><intro><p>such descriptions of—</p></intro><level class="para2"><num>(i)</num><content><p>apparatus placed, or proposed to be placed, in the street,</p></content></level><level class="para2"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>builder’s skips (within the meaning of section 139 of the Highways Act <ref eId="c00018" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/66">1980 (c. 66)</ref>)), or of building materials, rubbish or other things deposited, or proposed to be deposited, in the street; or</p></content></level><level class="para2"><num>(iii)</num><content><p>scaffolding or other structures which are erected, or proposed to be erected, in the street,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>as may be prescribed.</p></wrapUp></level></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-45-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (4) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(4A)</num><content><p>In subsection (4) “central register” means a register covering the areas of two or more street authorities.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-45-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (5) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(5A)</num><content><p>In particular the Secretary of State may require a street authority to share information in their possession with a person appointed to keep a central register which discharges the duties of that authority under this section.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-46"><num>46</num><heading>Records of location of apparatus</heading><subsection eId="section-46-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Section 79 of the 1991 Act (records of location of apparatus) is amended as follows.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-46-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (1) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(1A)</num><content><p>An undertaker may, except in such cases as may be prescribed, include in his records under subsection (1) a record of the location of any item of apparatus belonging to him which is not required to be so included, stating the nature of the apparatus and (if known) whether it is for the time being in use.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-46-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (2) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(2A)</num><content><p>Regulations under subsection (2) which alter the form or manner in which the records are to be kept may apply to records made before (as well as records made after) the alterations take effect.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-46-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (3) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(3A)</num><content><p>In subsections (2) to (3) the references to an undertaker’s records are to the records kept by him under subsection (1) (including anything included in those records by virtue of any provision of this Act or any other enactment).</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-47"><num>47</num><heading>Duties relating to the location of unexpected apparatus</heading><subsection eId="section-47-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Section 80 of the 1991 Act (duties where person finds unidentified apparatus) is amended as follows.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-47-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>In subsection (1) for “made available by the undertaker” there is substituted “kept by the undertaker under section 79(1) and made available by him”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-47-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (1) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(1A)</num><content><p>Subsection (1) has effect subject to such exceptions as may be prescribed.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-47-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p><mod>For subsections (2) and (3) there is substituted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(2)</num><intro><p>Where a person executing works of any description in the street finds apparatus which does not belong to him and is unable, after taking such steps as are reasonably practicable, to ascertain to whom the apparatus belongs, he shall comply with such requirements (if any) as may be prescribed for the purpose of securing that he—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>makes and keeps a record of the location of the apparatus and (so far as appears from external inspection) its nature and whether it is in use; and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>informs the street authority or any other person of those matters.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(2A)</num><intro><p>Regulations under subsection (2) may make provision—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>as to the form and manner in which records are to be kept;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>as to the form and manner in which, or the time at or by which, information is to be given; and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>for records which are to be kept by undertakers to be included in the records kept by them under section 79(1).</p></content></level></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-47-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>In subsection (4) for “(2)” there is substituted “any requirement imposed on him by regulations under subsection (2)”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-47-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (4) there is added—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(5)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision for and in connection with the keeping (whether by the Secretary of State or a person with whom he has made appropriate arrangements) of a register of information recorded by undertakers in pursuance of a requirement imposed under subsection (2).</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(6)</num><content><p>Regulations under subsection (5) may make provision about the inspection of the register by any person having authority to execute works of any description in the street or otherwise appearing to the person responsible for keeping the register to have a sufficient interest.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-48"><num>48</num><heading>Duty to inspect records</heading><content><p><mod>After section 53 of the 1991 Act (the street works register) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>53A</num><heading>Duty to inspect records</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations requiring an undertaker proposing to execute street works of a prescribed description to inspect prescribed statutory records before commencing the street works.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><content><p>The regulations may provide for the manner in which an inspection of any statutory records is to be carried out.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(3)</num><content><p>The regulations may prescribe evidence which may be relied on by the undertaker to demonstrate that he has carried out an inspection required by the regulations.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(4)</num><intro><p>The regulations may in particular require the undertaker—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>to be in possession of prescribed evidence before commencing the street works; and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>to produce, in such manner as may be prescribed, prescribed evidence to the street authority either at the request of the authority or at or by such time as may be prescribed.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(5)</num><content><p>The regulations may provide for the cases or circumstances in which a requirement under subsection (1) or (4) does or does not apply.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(6)</num><content><p>The regulations may create a summary offence, punishable with a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, in respect of any contravention by an undertaker of a requirement of the regulations.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(7)</num><intro><p>In this section “statutory record” means any register or other record kept in pursuance of a requirement imposed by—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>an enactment; or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>a licence or other instrument having effect under or by virtue of an enactment.</p></content></level></subsection></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-4-crossheading-miscellaneous"><heading>Miscellaneous</heading><section eId="section-49"><num>49</num><heading>Notices of street works</heading><subsection eId="section-49-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>In section 54 of the 1991 Act (advance notice of certain works)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-49-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>in subsection (3) for “contain such” there is substituted “state the date on which it is proposed to begin the works and shall contain such other”;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-49-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p><mod>after subsection (4) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(4A)</num><content><p>If an undertaker who has given advance notice under this section has not, before the starting date specified in the notice, given to the street authority a notice under section 55 in respect of the works, he shall within such period as may be prescribed give to that authority a notice containing such information as may be prescribed.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(4B)</num><content><p>An advance notice under this section shall cease to have effect in relation to the proposed works (so that subsection (1) applies again in relation to the works) if those works are not substantially begun before the end of such period beginning with the starting date specified in the notice as may be prescribed, or such further period as the street authority may allow.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(4C)</num><content><p>Different periods may be prescribed under subsection (4B) for different descriptions of works.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-49-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p><mod>In section 55 of that Act (notice of starting date of works) after subsection (7) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(8)</num><content><p>If a notice under this section ceases to have effect the undertaker shall, within such period as may be prescribed, give a notice containing such information as may be prescribed to those to whom the notice under this section was required to be given.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(9)</num><content><p>An undertaker who fails to give notice in accordance with subsection (8) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-49-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>In section 93 of that Act (works affecting level crossings or tramways) in subsection (2) for “(7)” there is substituted “(9)”.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-50"><num>50</num><heading>Qualifications of supervisors and operatives</heading><subsection eId="section-50-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Section 67 of the 1991 Act (qualifications of supervisors and operatives) is amended as follows.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-50-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (1) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(1A)</num><intro><p>A street authority may (unless the case is one excepted from subsection (1)) by notice require an undertaker executing street works—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><intro><p>to notify them of the name of—</p></intro><level class="para2"><num>(i)</num><content><p>the person who is currently the qualified supervisor required by subsection (1); and</p></content></level><level class="para2"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>each person who has previously been the qualified supervisor so required; and</p></content></level></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>to provide them with such evidence of the requisite qualification of each person named as may be prescribed.</p></content></level></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-50-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (2) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(2A)</num><intro><p>A street authority may (unless the case is one excepted from subsection (2)) by notice require an undertaker executing street works—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><intro><p>to notify them of the name of—</p></intro><level class="para2"><num>(i)</num><content><p>a person whose presence on site at any time specified in the notice (being a time when the works were in progress) enabled the undertaker to comply with his duty under subsection (2); or</p></content></level><level class="para2"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>each person whose presence on site during the progress of the works enabled the undertaker to comply with his duty in subsection (2); and</p></content></level></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>to provide them with such evidence of the requisite qualification of each person named as may be prescribed.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(2B)</num><content><p>A notice under subsection (1A) or (2A) may be given at any time while the works are being executed or within such period after their completion as may be prescribed.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(2C)</num><content><p>The undertaker shall comply with a notice under subsection (1A) or (2A) within such period as may be prescribed.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-50-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>In subsection (3) for “or (2)” there is substituted “, (2) or (2C)”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-50-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p><mod>In subsection (4), after paragraph (b) there is inserted <quotedText startQuote="&#x201C;">and</quotedText><quotedStructure endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>the form of any document to be issued by an approved body to certify or otherwise show that a qualification has been conferred on any person.</p></content></level></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-51"><num>51</num><heading>Restriction on works following substantial road works</heading><subsection eId="section-51-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Section 58 of the 1991 Act (restriction on works following substantial road works) is amended as specified in subsections (2) to (8).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-51-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>In subsection (1), for the words “twelve months” there is substituted “prescribed period”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-51-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>In subsection (2), after “prescribed” there is inserted “form and” and for “three months” there is substituted “such period as may be prescribed”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-51-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p><mod>In subsection (3) after paragraph (e) there is inserted <quotedText startQuote="&#x201C;">and</quotedText><quotedStructure endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(f)</num><content><p>any other person of a prescribed description;</p></content></level></quotedStructure></mod></p><p>(and the word “and” after paragraph (d) is omitted).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-51-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>In subsection (4), for paragraphs (a) and (b) there is substituted “within such period as may be prescribed”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-51-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>In subsection (6), at the beginning of paragraph (b) there is inserted “if he is convicted of an offence under this subsection”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-51-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p>In subsection (7), for “by arbitration” there is substituted “in the prescribed manner”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-51-8"><num>(8)</num><content><p><mod>After that subsection there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(7A)</num><intro><p>Regulations under subsection (7) may in particular make provision for the question referred to in that subsection to be settled—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>by arbitration;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>by a person designated by the Secretary of State on appeal by the undertaker.</p></content></level></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-51-9"><num>(9)</num><content><p>In section 55 of the 1991 Act (notice of starting date of works), in subsection (2), after “works,” there is inserted “or in cases where the undertaker has been given notice under section 58(1),”.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-52"><num>52</num><heading>Restriction on works following substantial street works</heading><subsection eId="section-52-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p><mod>After section 58 of the 1991 Act there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>58A</num><heading>Restriction on works following substantial street works</heading><content><p>Schedule 3A shall have effect.</p></content></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-52-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>After Schedule 3 to that Act there is inserted Schedule 3A as set out in Schedule 4 to this Act.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-52-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>In section 57 of that Act (notice of emergency works)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-52-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>in subsection (1) after “works)” there is inserted “or paragraph 2(1)(d) or 3(1) of Schedule 3A (notification of proposed works or directions as to timings of works)”;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-52-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in subsection (2) after “is” there is inserted “(or would, but for paragraph 2(6) of Schedule 3A, be)”.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-52-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>In section 64 of that Act (traffic-sensitive streets) in subsection (1) after “works)” there is inserted “or paragraph 2 of Schedule 3A”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-52-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>In section 74 of that Act (charge for occupation of highway where works unreasonably prolonged)in subsection (3)(b) after “date)” there is inserted “or notification under paragraph 2(1)(d) of Schedule 3A (notification of proposed works)”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-52-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>In section 88 of that Act (provisions relating to bridges)in subsection (4) after “date)” there is inserted “, or making a notification under paragraph 2(1)(d) of Schedule 3A (notification of proposed works),”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-52-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p>In section 89 of that Act (provisions relating to sewers)in subsection (2) after “date)” there is inserted “, or making a notification under paragraph 2(1)(d) of Schedule 3A (notification of proposed works),”.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-53"><num>53</num><heading>Notices requiring remedial works relating to reinstatements</heading><subsection eId="section-53-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>In section 72 of the 1991 Act (powers of street authority in relation to reinstatement)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-53-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>in subsection (3), for “of not less than 7 working days” there is substituted “, not being less than such period as may be prescribed,”; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-53-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p><mod>after subsection (3) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(3A)</num><content><p>Different minimum periods may be prescribed under subsection (3) for different descriptions of remedial works; and cases may be prescribed in which no minimum period applies.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-53-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>In section 90 of the 1991 Act (powers of street authority in relation to reinstatement of sewers, etc.)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-53-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>in subsection (2), for “of not less than 7 working days” there is substituted “, not being less than such period as may be prescribed,”; and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-53-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p><mod>after subsection (2) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(2A)</num><content><p>Different minimum periods may be prescribed under subsection (2) for different descriptions of remedial works; and cases may be prescribed in which no minimum period applies.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></level></subsection></section><section eId="section-54"><num>54</num><heading>Duty to notify street authority of reinstatement</heading><subsection eId="section-54-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Section 70 of the 1991 Act (duty of undertaker to reinstate) is amended as follows.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-54-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (1) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(1A)</num><content><p>The reinstatement required by subsection (1) may be permanent or interim.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-54-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p><mod>For subsections (3) and (4) there is substituted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(3)</num><intro><p>He shall within 7 working days from the date on which the reinstatement is completed give notice to the street authority of that completion—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>stating whether the reinstatement is permanent or interim; and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>giving such other information about the reinstatement as may be prescribed.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(4)</num><content><p>If the reinstatement is interim, he shall complete the permanent reinstatement of the street as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any event within 6 months from the date on which the interim reinstatement was completed.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(4A)</num><content><p>He shall, within 7 working days from the date on which the permanent reinstatement required by subsection (4) is completed, give notice to the street authority of that completion, giving such other information about the reinstatement as may be prescribed.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(4B)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may by regulations modify the period specified in subsection (3), (4) or (4A).</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-55"><num>55</num><heading>Power of street authority to require undertaker to re-surface street</heading><subsection eId="section-55-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p><mod>After section 73 of the 1991 Act there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock"><heading>Re-surfacing</heading><section><num>73A</num><heading>Power to require undertaker to re-surface street</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><content><p>In prescribed circumstances, the street authority for a street may by notice (a “re-surfacing notice”) require an undertaker within subsection (2) to execute such re-surfacing works in the street as may be specified in the notice.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><intro><p>An undertaker is within this subsection if—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>he has given notice under section 54 or 55 of, or made a notification under paragraph 2(1)(d) of Schedule 3A in respect of, proposed street works,</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>he is executing street works, or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>he has, within such period ending with the giving of the notice as may be prescribed (or if no period is prescribed, at any time), executed street works,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>and the works will involve, involve or (as the case may be) involved the breaking up of any part of the street.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection><num>(3)</num><content><p>The works specified in the re-surfacing notice may relate to any part of the street (including any part not, and not to be, broken up by the undertaker); but regulations may restrict the extent of the works that may be so specified.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(4)</num><content><p>The re-surfacing notice relieves the undertaker to the extent (if any) specified in the notice of his duty under section 70 to reinstate the surface of the street; but regulations may restrict the circumstances in which and the extent to which undertakers may be relieved of that duty.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(5)</num><content><p>The street authority may by notice to the undertaker vary or withdraw a re-surfacing notice; but regulations may restrict the circumstances in which notices may be varied or withdrawn.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(6)</num><content><p>A street authority may give a re-surfacing notice notwithstanding that the authority (in any capacity) are under a duty to undertake any of the works specified in the notice.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(7)</num><intro><p>In this Part—</p></intro><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“re-surfacing notice” has the meaning given by subsection (1);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“re-surfacing works” means any works relating to the replacement of the surface of any part of a street;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“surface” includes a paved surface.</p></content></hcontainer></subsection><subsection><num>(8)</num><content><p>The reference in subsection (2)(c) to the execution of street works is a reference to the execution of such works after the commencement of this section (whether or not regulations under it have been made).</p></content></subsection></section><section><num>73B</num><heading>Power to specify timing etc. of re-surfacing</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><intro><p>A re-surfacing notice may require an undertaker to—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>execute the works specified in the notice in stages so specified;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>begin the execution of those works (or any stage of them) at or by a date and time so specified;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>execute those works (or any stage of them) at times or on days (or at times on days) so specified;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(d)</num><content><p>complete the execution of those works (or any stage of them) by a date and time so specified.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><intro><p>The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision restricting, in some or all cases, the power to include requirements within subsection (1), including provision that—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>requires a street authority to consult an undertaker before a prescribed description of requirement is included in a notice;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>provides that any date specified in a notice for the beginning, execution or completion of works shall not be earlier than a prescribed period from the date on which the notice is given.</p></content></level></subsection></section><section><num>73C</num><heading>Materials, workmanship and standard of re-surfacing</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><content><p>An undertaker who has been given a re-surfacing notice shall, when executing the works specified in the notice, comply with such requirements as may be prescribed as to the specification of materials to be used and the standards of workmanship to be observed.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><content><p>He shall also ensure that the new surface conforms to such performance standards as may be prescribed, for the prescribed period after completion of the works.</p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-55-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>In section 106 of that Act—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-55-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p><mod>after the entry for relevant authority (in relation to street works) there is inserted—<quotedText startQuote="&#x201C;"/><quotedStructure endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><tblock class="table" ukl:Orientation="portrait"><foreign><default:table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" summary="This table displays a new entry to be inserted into the index of defined expressions. 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It displays the expression and specifies the section where the expression is defined or explained."><default:tbody><default:tr><default:td><p xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0">surface</p></default:td><default:td><p xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0">section 73A(7)</p></default:td></default:tr></default:tbody></default:table></foreign></tblock></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></level></subsection></section><section eId="section-56"><num>56</num><heading>Re-surfacing: regulations and guidance</heading><content><p><mod>After section 73C of the 1991 Act there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>73D</num><heading>Re-surfacing: regulations</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may make regulations supplementing sections 73A to 73C.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><intro><p>The regulations may in particular—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>make provision about the information to be contained in a re-surfacing notice (including the way in which re-surfacing works are to be described);</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>prescribe, for cases where a re-surfacing notice may be given to more than one undertaker, the matters that a street authority shall take into account when selecting the undertaker to whom the notice is to be given;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>impose a requirement on an undertaker, in prescribed circumstances, to give notice to the street authority of a prescribed event;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(d)</num><content><p>prescribe circumstances in which an undertaker may elect to make a payment to the street authority instead of executing the works specified in a re-surfacing notice, and make provision about the calculation of the amount of such payments;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(e)</num><content><p>confer a right of review or appeal against a re-surfacing notice or any requirement contained in it, and may make provision about the period within which and manner in which any such right may be exercised and about the determination of appeals and the persons who may determine them;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(f)</num><content><p>require disputes of a prescribed description (including disputes as to the existence of circumstances prescribed under section 73A(1)) to be determined in such manner and by such persons as may be prescribed;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(g)</num><content><p>apply any provisions of this Part or the Highways Act <ref eId="c00019" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/66">1980 (c. 66)</ref>, with or without modifications, in relation to works specified in a re-surfacing notice (and provide that for those purposes the works are to be treated as street works or works of any other description).</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(3)</num><content><p>The regulations may provide that where a re-surfacing notice has been served on an undertaker, the street authority may (in such circumstances and to such extent as may be prescribed) by notice relieve any other undertaker within section 73A(2) of his duty under section 70 to reinstate the surface of the street.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(4)</num><intro><p>The regulations may create in respect of any breach of a requirement imposed by a re-surfacing notice or of the duty imposed by section 73C, or any contravention of the regulations, an offence punishable on summary conviction—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>where the offence consists of a failure to give a notice in accordance with the regulations, with a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in any other case, with a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(5)</num><content><p>The first regulations under this section or any of sections 73A to 73C shall not be made unless a draft of them has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament; subsequent regulations shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</p></content></subsection></section><section><num>73E</num><heading>Re-surfacing: guidance</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may, for the purposes of sections 73A to 73D (including regulations under those sections), issue or approve a code of practice giving practical guidance as to the exercise of powers and the discharge of duties under those sections.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><content><p>In exercising those powers and in discharging those duties, street authorities and undertakers shall have regard to the code of practice.</p></content></subsection></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></section><section eId="section-57"><num>57</num><heading>Contributions to costs of re-surfacing by undertaker</heading><subsection eId="section-57-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p><mod>After section 78 of the 1991 Act there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>78A</num><heading>Contributions to costs of re-surfacing by undertaker</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><intro><p>Where a street authority has given a re-surfacing notice to an undertaker (A)—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the authority shall pay to A a proportion, calculated in the prescribed manner, of the costs reasonably incurred by A in executing the works specified in the notice;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>an undertaker to whom subsection (2) applies shall pay to A a proportion, calculated in the prescribed manner, of those costs.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><intro><p>This subsection applies to an undertaker if—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>he has, after the commencement of this section (whether or not regulations under it have been made) and before the completion of the works specified in the notice, executed street works which involved the breaking up of any part of a street, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the works specified in the notice include the re-surfacing of that part of the street.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(3)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may by regulations prescribe exceptions to the duty imposed by subsection (1)(b).</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(4)</num><content><p>The payments referred to in subsection (1) shall be made in such instalments and manner, and within such period of such event, as may be prescribed.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(5)</num><intro><p>The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>requiring a street authority, within such period of such event as may be prescribed, to give to an undertaker to whom subsection (2) applies a notice containing such information as may be prescribed;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>requiring a street authority to pay to an undertaker to whom it has given a re-surfacing notice such sum as he has been unable to recover under subsection (1)(b) on account of the insolvency of an undertaker;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>requiring disputes of a prescribed description (including disputes as to whether subsection (2) applies to an undertaker) to be determined in such manner and by such persons as may be prescribed.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(6)</num><content><p>For the purposes of this section, any costs incurred by an undertaker (including any costs of a street authority which are borne by the undertaker) in consequence of a failure by the undertaker to comply with any duty under this Part shall be treated as having been incurred unreasonably.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(7)</num><intro><p>The Secretary of State may by regulations make provision requiring undertakers to make payments to a street authority where—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the authority has given a re-surfacing notice to an undertaker,</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>that undertaker has exercised a right, conferred by regulations under section 73D, of the sort mentioned in subsection (2)(d) of that section, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>the authority has carried out any of the works specified in the notice.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(8)</num><content><p>The power in subsection (7) includes power to make provision corresponding to provision that may be made under subsections (1) to (5).</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(9)</num><content><p>Regulations under this section may make different provision for cases where an undertaker mentioned in subsection (1) or (7) has made, or is liable to make, a payment under section 78.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(10)</num><content><p>The first regulations under this section shall not be made unless a draft of them has been laid before and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament; subsequent regulations shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(11)</num><intro><p>In subsection (5)(b) “insolvency”—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>in relation to a company, has the meaning given by section 247(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in relation to an individual, includes the approval of a voluntary arrangement under Part 8 of that Act.</p></content></level></subsection></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-57-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>In section 96 of the 1991 Act, in subsection (3), after “street)” there is inserted “or 78A (contributions to costs of re-surfacing by undertakers)”.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-58"><num>58</num><heading>Inspection fees</heading><subsection eId="section-58-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p><mod>In section 72 of the 1991 Act (powers of street authority in relation to reinstatement) after subsection (2) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(2A)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may prescribe a fee in respect of a prescribed description of inspection mentioned in subsection (2).</p><p>If he does so that subsection has effect, in relation to that description of inspection, as if for “he shall bear the cost of” there were substituted “he shall pay the prescribed fee in respect of”.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(2B)</num><intro><p>The power to make different provision under subsection (2A) for different cases includes power—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>to make different provision for different descriptions of street authority or undertakers;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>to prescribe different fees by reference to the nature or extent of the inspection, the place where it is carried out and such other factors as appear to the Secretary of State to be relevant.</p></content></level></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-58-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p><mod>For section 75 of that Act (inspection fees) there is substituted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>75</num><heading>Inspection fees</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><intro><p>The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations requiring an undertaker to pay to the street authority the prescribed fee in respect of—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>all inspections carried out by the authority of his street works; or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>such inspections of those works as may be prescribed.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><intro><p>The regulations may—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>require undertakers to make payments in respect of inspections anticipated to take place within a prescribed period; and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>make provision for the striking of an account between an undertaker and a street authority and the making of any necessary payment or repayment.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(3)</num><intro><p>The power to make different provision under this section for different cases includes power—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>to make different provision for different descriptions of street authority or different descriptions of undertakers (including descriptions framed by reference to their previous performance);</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>to prescribe different fees by reference to the nature or extent of the excavation or other works, the place where they are executed and such other factors as appear to the Secretary of State to be relevant.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(4)</num><content><p>The reference in subsection (3)(a) to the previous performance of an undertaker is to the performance of the undertaker, during such period as may be prescribed, as respects such description of his duties under this Part as may be prescribed.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(5)</num><content><p>The regulations may require disputes of any prescribed description to be determined by arbitration.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(6)</num><content><p>Nothing in this section applies to inspections in respect of which the undertaker is obliged to bear the cost, or pay the prescribed fee, under section 72(2) (inspections consequent on failure to comply with duties as to reinstatement).</p></content></subsection></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-59"><num>59</num><heading>Guidance about inspections</heading><content><p><mod>After section 73E of the 1991 Act (as inserted by section 56 above) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock"><heading>Inspections</heading><section><num>73F</num><heading>Guidance about street authority inspections</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may issue or approve guidance to street authorities about any matter relating to the exercise by them of any power to carry out inspections of street works.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><content><p>In exercising their powers to carry out such inspections a street authority shall have regard to any guidance issued or approved under this section.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(3)</num><content><p>In this section any reference to inspections includes the carrying out of investigatory works.</p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></section></hcontainer></part>
<part xmlns="http://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/ns/akn/3.0" xmlns:ukl="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" xmlns:uk="https://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/UK-AKN" eId="part-5"><num>Part 5</num><heading>Highways and roads</heading><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-5-crossheading-strategic-roads-in-london"><heading>Strategic roads in London</heading><section eId="section-60"><num>60</num><heading>Strategic roads in London: initial designation by Secretary of State</heading><subsection eId="section-60-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>The Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument designate roads and proposed roads in Greater London, other than roads for which the Secretary of State or Transport for London is the traffic authority, as strategic roads for the purposes of—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-60-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>section 301A of the 1980 Act, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-60-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>section 121B of the 1984 Act.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-60-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>Any road or proposed road so designated shall become a strategic road as from such date as may be specified in the order.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-60-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>No order under subsection (1) may be made in respect of a road or proposed road in a London borough if an order under that subsection has been made in respect of any other road or proposed road in that borough.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-60-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>In this section and section 61—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-60-4-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>“road” means any length of highway or of any other road to which the public has access, and includes bridges over which a road passes;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-60-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>“strategic road” means a road which is for the time being a strategic road by virtue of an order under subsection (1) or section 61(1);</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-60-4-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>“traffic authority” has the same meaning as in the 1984 Act.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-60-5"><num>(5)</num><intro><p>For the purposes of this section and section 61—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-60-5-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the City of London shall be treated as if it were a London borough;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-60-5-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the Common Council shall be treated as if it were the council for a London borough;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-60-5-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>the Inner Temple and the Middle Temple shall be treated as forming part of the City.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-60-6"><num>(6)</num><intro><p>In this Part—</p></intro><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“the 1980 Act” means the Highways Act <ref eId="c00020" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1980/66">1980 (c. 66)</ref>;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“the 1984 Act” means the Road Traffic Regulation Act <ref eId="c00021" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1984/27">1984 (c. 27)</ref>.</p></content></hcontainer></subsection><subsection eId="section-60-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p>A statutory instrument containing an order under this section is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-61"><num>61</num><heading>Orders of the Greater London Authority changing what are strategic roads</heading><subsection eId="section-61-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>If the Mayor of London considers it expedient that any road or proposed road in Greater London, other than a road for which the Secretary of State or Transport for London is the traffic authority, should become a strategic road then the Greater London Authority may by order direct that the road or proposed road shall become a strategic road.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-61-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>Subject to subsection (3), an order under subsection (1) takes effect on such date as may be specified in the order.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-61-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>An order under subsection (1) is of no effect unless—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-61-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>it is made with the consent of the council for the London borough in which the road is situated (or proposed road is to be situated), or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-61-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>if that consent is refused, it is confirmed (with or without modifications) by the Secretary of State.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-61-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>If the Mayor considers it expedient that any strategic road should cease to be such a road then the Greater London Authority may by order direct that the road shall cease to be such a road.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-61-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>An order under subsection (4) takes effect on such date as may be specified in the order.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-61-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>The functions of the Greater London Authority under this section are functions exercisable by the Mayor acting on its behalf.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-61-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p>Section 124C of the 1984 Act (certification and records) applies in relation to strategic roads as it applies in relation to GLA side roads.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-62"><num>62</num><heading>London borough council exercising powers under Highways Act 1980 so as to affect strategic roads</heading><subsection eId="section-62-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Section 301A of the 1980 Act (London borough council exercising powers under that Act so as to affect certain roads) is amended as follows.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-62-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>In subsection (1)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-62-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p><mod>at the end of paragraph (a) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(aa)</num><content><p>a strategic road,</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">;</inline></mod></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-62-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in paragraph (b), after “borough” there is inserted “other than a GLA road or strategic road”.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-62-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p><mod>In subsection (3)(a), for the words from “by Transport for London” to the end there is substituted <quotedText startQuote="&#x201C;">—</quotedText><quotedStructure endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para2"><num>(i)</num><content><p>in the case of a GLA road, by Transport for London;</p></content></level><level class="para2"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>in the case of a strategic road, by Transport for London and, where the road concerned is in another London borough, the council for that borough;</p></content></level><level class="para2"><num>(iii)</num><content><p>in the case of a road within subsection (1)(b), by the London borough council concerned; or</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-62-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (3) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(3A)</num><content><p>References in paragraphs (b) to (d) of subsection (3) to objections are to objections made by a person who, in the circumstances, has the power to give an approval under paragraph (a) of that subsection.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-62-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p><mod>In subsection (5)(a), for the words from “a GLA road” to the end there is substituted <quotedText startQuote="&#x201C;">—</quotedText><quotedStructure endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para2"><num>(i)</num><content><p>a GLA road,</p></content></level><level class="para2"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>a strategic road, or</p></content></level><level class="para2"><num>(iii)</num><content><p>a road in another London borough other than a GLA road or strategic road, and</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-62-6"><num>(6)</num><intro><p>In subsection (10)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-62-6-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>in paragraph (b), at the end there is inserted “or strategic roads”;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-62-6-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in paragraph (c), for “neither GLA roads nor” there is substituted “not GLA roads, strategic roads or”.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-62-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (16) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(17)</num><content><p>In this section “strategic road” has the meaning given by section 60 of the Traffic Management Act 2004.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-63"><num>63</num><heading>London borough council exercising powers under Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 so as to affect strategic roads</heading><subsection eId="section-63-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Section 121B of the 1984 Act (London borough council exercising powers under that Act so as to affect certain roads) is amended as follows.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-63-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>In subsection (1)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-63-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p><mod>at the end of paragraph (a) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(aa)</num><content><p>a strategic road,</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">;</inline></mod></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-63-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in paragraph (b), after “borough” there is inserted “other than a GLA road or strategic road”.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-63-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p><mod>In subsection (3)(a), for the words from “by Transport for London” to the end there is substituted <quotedText startQuote="&#x201C;">—</quotedText><quotedStructure endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para2"><num>(i)</num><content><p>in the case of a GLA road, by Transport for London;</p></content></level><level class="para2"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>in the case of a strategic road, by Transport for London and, where the road concerned is in another London borough, the council for that borough;</p></content></level><level class="para2"><num>(iii)</num><content><p>in the case of a road within subsection (1)(b), by the London borough council concerned; or</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-63-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (3) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(3A)</num><content><p>References in paragraphs (b) to (d) of subsection (3) to objections are to objections made by a person who, in the circumstances, has the power to give an approval under paragraph (a) of that subsection.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-63-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p><mod>In subsection (5)(a), for the words from “a GLA road” to the end there is substituted <quotedText startQuote="&#x201C;">—</quotedText><quotedStructure endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para2"><num>(i)</num><content><p>a GLA road,</p></content></level><level class="para2"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>a strategic road, or</p></content></level><level class="para2"><num>(iii)</num><content><p>a road in another London borough other than a GLA road or strategic road, and</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-63-6"><num>(6)</num><intro><p>In subsection (10)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-63-6-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>in paragraph (b), at the end there is inserted “or strategic roads”;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-63-6-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in paragraph (c), for “neither GLA roads nor” there is substituted “not GLA roads, strategic roads or”.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-63-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p><mod>After subsection (12) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(13)</num><content><p>In this section “strategic road” has the meaning given by section 60 of the Traffic Management Act 2004.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-5-crossheading-enforcement-of-certain-offences-under-the-highways-act-1980"><heading>Enforcement of certain offences under the Highways Act 1980</heading><section eId="section-64"><num>64</num><heading>Fixed penalty offences under the Highways Act 1980</heading><subsection eId="section-64-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p><mod>After section 314 of the 1980 Act (offences by body corporate) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>314A</num><heading>Fixed penalties for certain offences under Part 9</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><intro><p>A fixed penalty offence is any offence under Part 9 which—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>is listed in the first column in Schedule 22A (and described in general terms in the second column), and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>is prescribed in regulations made by the Secretary of State.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><content><p>Offences listed in that Schedule which are committed by virtue of section 314 (offences committed by bodies corporate, etc.) are not fixed penalty offences.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(3)</num><content><p>Schedule 22B (which makes provision about fixed penalties for fixed penalty offences) has effect.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(4)</num><intro><p>Regulations under subsection (1)(b) may—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>make provision for Greater London different from that made for the rest of England;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>make consequential provision (including provision disapplying sections 8 to 11 of, and Schedule 2 to, the London Local Authorities and Transport for London Act 2003 in relation to any offence prescribed in such regulations);</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>make transitional provision.</p></content></level></subsection></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-64-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p><mod>In section 322(5) of that Act (service of notices etc.), after paragraph (a) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(ab)</num><content><p>a notice under Schedule 22B to this Act;</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-64-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>After Schedule 22 to that Act there is inserted Schedules 22A and 22B as set out in Schedules 5 and 6 to this Act.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-64-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p><mod>In the New Roads and Street Works Act <ref eId="c00022" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/1991/22">1991 (c. 22)</ref>, in section 97 (service of notices etc.) after subsection (2) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(3)</num><content><p>References in this section to notices authorised to be given or served for the purposes of this Part include a reference to notices under Schedule 22B to the Highways Act 1980 (fixed penalties for certain offences under that Act).</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-64-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p><mod>In the <ref eId="c00023" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukla/2003/3">London Local Authorities and Transport for London Act 2003 (c. iii)</ref>, in section 11 (fixed penalties: reserve powers of Secretary of State) after subsection (6) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(7)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may make regulations increasing the level of fixed penalty under this Act in respect of an offence listed in Schedule 22A to the Highways Act 1980 (as well as Schedule 4 to this Act).</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(8)</num><content><p>While regulations under subsection (7) are in force in respect of an offence, the borough councils and Transport for London may not set the level of fixed penalty in respect of that offence below that set by the regulations.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-5-crossheading-records-of-objects-placed-in-highway"><heading>Records of objects placed in highway</heading><section eId="section-65"><num>65</num><heading>Duty of local highway authority to keep records of objects in highway</heading><subsection eId="section-65-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The appropriate national authority may by regulations made by statutory instrument require a local highway authority to make and keep a record of the location of any object of a description specified in the regulations which has been placed by that authority in a street.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-65-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>Regulations under this section may include provision—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-65-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>as to the form in which a record is to be made;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-65-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>as to supplementary information to be included in a record;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-65-2-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>requiring a record to be made available for inspection.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-65-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>The reference in subsection (1) to an object placed in a street includes an object placed under, over, across, along or upon a street.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-65-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>In this section—</p></intro><hcontainer name="definition"><intro><p>“appropriate national authority” means—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the Secretary of State, in relation to local highway authorities in England;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the National Assembly for Wales, in relation to local highway authorities in Wales;</p></content></level></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“street” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.</p></content></hcontainer></subsection><subsection eId="section-65-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section made by the Secretary of State is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.</p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-5-crossheading-skips-scaffolding-building-materials-and-excavations-charges-for-occupation-of-highway-etc"><heading>Skips, scaffolding, building materials and excavations: charges for occupation of highway etc.</heading><section eId="section-66"><num>66</num><heading>Builders' skips: charge for occupation of highway for unreasonable period</heading><content><p><mod>For section 140A of the 1980 Act there is substituted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>140A</num><heading>Builders' skips: charge for occupation of highway for unreasonable period</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><intro><p>The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations requiring the owner of a builder’s skip deposited on a highway maintainable at the public expense to pay a charge to the highway authority where the period for which the skip remains in the highway exceeds—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>such period as may be prescribed, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>a reasonable period.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><content><p>For this purpose “a reasonable period” means such period as is agreed by the authority and the owner of the skip to be reasonable or, in default of such agreement, is determined by arbitration to be reasonable in the circumstances.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(3)</num><content><p>In default of agreement, the authority’s view as to what is a reasonable period shall be acted upon pending the decision of the arbitrator.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(4)</num><content><p>The regulations may prescribe exemptions from the requirement to pay charges.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(5)</num><intro><p>The regulations may provide—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>that in prescribed circumstances (including in particular where any person makes an application for permission under section 139) the owner of the skip shall give to the authority, in such manner and within such period as may be prescribed, notice containing an estimate of the likely duration of the occupation of the highway, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>that the period stated in the notice shall be taken to be agreed by the authority to be reasonable unless the authority give notice, in such manner and within such period as may be prescribed, objecting to the estimate.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(6)</num><intro><p>The regulations may also provide—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>that in prescribed circumstances the owner of the skip shall give to the authority, in such manner and within such period as may be prescribed, notice containing a revised estimate of the likely duration of the occupation of the highway, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>that upon the notice being given any previous agreement to or determination of a reasonable period ceases to have effect, and the period stated in the notice shall be taken to be agreed by the authority to be reasonable unless the authority give notice, in such manner and within such period as may be prescribed, objecting to the revised estimate.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(7)</num><content><p>The amount of the charge shall be determined in such manner as may be prescribed by reference to the period for which the highway is occupied by the skip.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(8)</num><intro><p>The regulations may prescribe different rates of charge according to—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the extent to which the skip occupies the highway;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the place and time of the occupation;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>such other factors as appear to the Secretary of State to be relevant.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(9)</num><intro><p>The regulations may provide—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>that the authority are to set the rate of charge, up to a prescribed maximum, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>that different rates of charge may be set according to such factors as the authority consider relevant.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(10)</num><content><p>The regulations may make provision for the determination of the duration of the occupation of the highway for the purposes of the regulations.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(11)</num><content><p>And they may, in particular, make provision for an occupation to be treated as beginning or ending on the giving of, or as stated in, a notice given by the owner of the skip to the authority, in the prescribed manner, in accordance with a requirement imposed by the regulations.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(12)</num><intro><p>The regulations may make provision requiring the owner of the skip to provide the authority, in such manner and within such period as may be prescribed, with such information as the authority may specify in a notice to that person, being information required for the purposes of—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>determining whether a charge is payable by him;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>calculating the amount of any charge payable by him.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(13)</num><content><p>The regulations may make provision as to the time and manner of making payment of charges.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(14)</num><intro><p>The regulations shall provide that a highway authority may reduce the amount, or waive payment, of a charge—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>in any particular case,</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in such classes of case as they may decide or as may be prescribed, or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>in all cases or in all cases other than a particular case or such class of case as they may decide or as may be prescribed.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(15)</num><intro><p>The regulations may make provision as to—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the application by local highway authorities of sums paid by way of charges, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the keeping of accounts, and the preparation and publication of statements of account, relating to sums paid by way of charges.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(16)</num><content><p>The regulations may create in respect of any failure to give a notice, or to provide information, required by the regulations a criminal offence triable summarily and punishable with a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(17)</num><content><p>The regulations may provide that where a skip is the subject of a prescribed description of hiring agreement or hire purchase agreement, the person in possession of the skip under the agreement is for the purposes of the regulations to be treated as the owner of the skip.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(18)</num><content><p>The regulations may make provision about their application to a series of deposits of skips.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(19)</num><intro><p>And they may, in particular, provide that a series of deposits of skips is to be treated as a single deposit of a skip—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>beginning at the time the first in the series was deposited, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>ending at the time the last in the series was removed.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(20)</num><intro><p>In this section—</p></intro><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“builder’s skip” has the meaning given by section 139(11);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“prescribed” means prescribed by the Secretary of State by regulations, which may make different provision for different cases.</p></content></hcontainer></subsection></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></section><section eId="section-67"><num>67</num><heading>Builders' skips: charge determined by reference to duration of occupation of highway</heading><content><p><mod>After section 140A of the 1980 Act there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>140B</num><heading>Builders' skips: charge determined by reference to duration of occupation of highway</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations requiring the owner of a builder’s skip deposited on a highway maintainable at the public expense to pay to the highway authority a charge determined, in the prescribed manner, by reference to the period for which the highway is occupied by the skip.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><content><p>The regulations shall not require charges to be paid to a local highway authority unless the Secretary of State has, by order, approved the authority for the purposes of the regulations.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(3)</num><content><p>The regulations may require disputes of any prescribed description to be referred to an arbitrator appointed in accordance with the regulations.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(4)</num><content><p>Subsections (4) and (8) to (20) of section 140A apply in relation to regulations under subsection (1) of this section as they apply in relation to regulations under subsection (1) of that section.</p></content></subsection></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></section><section eId="section-68"><num>68</num><heading>Scaffolding, building materials and excavations: charge for occupation of highway for unreasonable period</heading><content><p><mod>For section 171A of the 1980 Act there is substituted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>171A</num><heading>Scaffolding, building materials and excavations: charge for occupation of highway for unreasonable period</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><intro><p>The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations requiring a person who—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>erects a relevant structure on or over a highway maintainable at the public expense,</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>deposits building materials, rubbish or other things in such a highway, or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>makes a temporary excavation in such a highway,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>to pay a charge to the highway authority in the circumstances set out in subsection (3).</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><content><p>The reference in subsection (1)(a) to the erection of a relevant structure is a reference to the erection, in connection with any building or demolition work or the alteration, repair, maintenance or cleaning of any building, of any scaffolding or other structure that obstructs the highway.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(3)</num><intro><p>The circumstances are that the period (in this section, the “relevant period”) for which—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>a relevant structure is on or over the highway,</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>things are deposited in the highway, or (as the case may be)</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>there is an excavation in the highway,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>exceeds both the prescribed period and a reasonable period.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection><num>(4)</num><content><p>For this purpose “a reasonable period” means such period as is agreed by the authority and the person to be reasonable or, in default of such agreement, is determined by arbitration to be reasonable in the circumstances.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(5)</num><content><p>In default of agreement, the authority’s view as to what is a reasonable period shall be acted upon pending the decision of the arbitrator.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(6)</num><content><p>The regulations may prescribe exemptions from the requirement to pay charges.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(7)</num><intro><p>The regulations may provide—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>that in prescribed circumstances (including in particular where an application is made for a licence under section 169 or consent under section 171) a person who intends to do or who does an activity mentioned in subsection (1)(a) to (c) shall give to the authority, in such manner and within such period as may be prescribed, notice containing an estimate of the likely duration of the relevant period, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>that the period stated in the notice shall be taken to be agreed by the authority to be reasonable unless the authority give notice, in such manner and within such period as may be prescribed, objecting to the estimate.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(8)</num><intro><p>The regulations may also provide—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>that in prescribed circumstances a person who has given a notice of a type mentioned in subsection (7) shall give to the authority, in such manner and within such period as may be prescribed, notice containing a revised estimate of the likely duration of the relevant period, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>that upon the notice being given any previous agreement to or determination of a reasonable period ceases to have effect, and the period stated in the notice shall be taken to be agreed by the authority to be reasonable unless the authority give notice, in such manner and within such period as may be prescribed, objecting to the revised estimate.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(9)</num><content><p>The amount of the charge shall be determined in such manner as may be prescribed by reference to the relevant period.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(10)</num><intro><p>The regulations may prescribe different rates of charge according to—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the extent to which the highway is affected by the structure, things deposited or excavation;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the place and time at which the highway is so affected;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>such other factors as appear to the Secretary of State to be relevant.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(11)</num><intro><p>The regulations may provide—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>that the authority are to set the rate of charge, up to a prescribed maximum, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>that different rates of charge may be set according to such factors as the authority consider relevant.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(12)</num><content><p>The regulations may make provision for the determination of the duration of the relevant period for the purposes of the regulations.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(13)</num><content><p>And they may, in particular, make provision for the relevant period to be treated as beginning or ending on the giving of, or as stated in, a notice given by the person mentioned in subsection (1) to the authority, in the prescribed manner, in accordance with a requirement imposed by the regulations.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(14)</num><intro><p>The regulations may make provision requiring a person who does an activity mentioned in subsection (1)(a) to (c) to provide the authority, in such manner and within such period as may be prescribed, with such information as the authority may specify in a notice to that person, being information required for the purposes of—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>determining whether a charge is payable by him;</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>calculating the amount of any charge payable by him.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(15)</num><content><p>The regulations may make provision as to the time and manner of making payment of charges.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(16)</num><intro><p>The regulations shall provide that a highway authority may reduce the amount, or waive payment, of a charge—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>in any particular case,</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in such classes of case as they may decide or as may be prescribed, or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>in all cases or in all cases other than a particular case or such class of case as they may decide or as may be prescribed.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(17)</num><intro><p>The regulations may make provision as to—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the application by local highway authorities of sums paid by way of charges, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the keeping of accounts, and the preparation and publication of statements of account, relating to sums paid by way of charges.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(18)</num><content><p>The regulations may create in respect of any failure to give a notice, or to provide information, required by the regulations a criminal offence triable summarily and punishable with a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(19)</num><content><p>The regulations may make provision about their application to a series of deposits of things.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(20)</num><intro><p>And they may, in particular, provide that a series of deposits of things is to be treated as a single deposit of things—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>beginning at the time the first in the series was deposited, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>ending at the time the last in the series was removed.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(21)</num><content><p>The regulations may make provision corresponding to that mentioned in subsections (19) and (20) in relation to the erection of relevant structures and the making of excavations.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(22)</num><content><p>In this section “prescribed” means prescribed by the Secretary of State by regulations, which may make different provision for different cases.</p></content></subsection></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></section><section eId="section-69"><num>69</num><heading>Scaffolding, building materials and excavations: charge determined by reference to duration of occupation of highway</heading><content><p><mod>After section 171A of the 1980 Act there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>171B</num><heading>Scaffolding, building materials and excavations: charge determined by reference to duration of occupation of highway</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><intro><p>The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations requiring a person who—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>erects a relevant structure on or over a highway maintainable at the public expense,</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>deposits building materials, rubbish or other things in such a highway, or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>makes a temporary excavation in such a highway,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>to pay a charge to the highway authority.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><content><p>The reference in subsection (1)(a) to the erection of a relevant structure is a reference to the erection, in connection with any building or demolition work or the alteration, repair, maintenance or cleaning of any building, of any scaffolding or other structure that obstructs the highway.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(3)</num><intro><p>The charge shall be determined in the prescribed manner, by reference to the period (in this section, the “relevant period”) for which—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>a relevant structure is on or over the highway,</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>things are deposited in the highway, or (as the case may be)</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>there is an excavation in the highway.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection><num>(4)</num><content><p>The regulations shall not require charges to be paid to a local highway authority unless the Secretary of State has, by order, approved the authority for the purposes of the regulations.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(5)</num><content><p>The regulations may require disputes of any prescribed description to be referred to an arbitrator appointed in accordance with the regulations.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(6)</num><content><p>Subsections (6) and (10) to (22) of section 171A apply in relation to regulations under subsection (1) of this section as they apply in relation to regulations under subsection (1) of that section.</p></content></subsection></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></section><section eId="section-70"><num>70</num><heading>Sections 66 to 69: supplementary</heading><subsection eId="section-70-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>In section 139 of the 1980 Act, in subsection (11) for “, section 140 and section 140A” there is substituted “and section 140”.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-70-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p><mod>After section 140B of that Act there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>140C</num><heading>Regulations under sections 140A and 140B</heading><content><p>Nothing shall be taken to prevent the imposition of charges by both regulations under section 140A and regulations under section 140B in respect of the same builder’s skip at the same time.</p></content></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-70-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p><mod>After section 171B of that Act there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>171C</num><heading>Regulations under sections 171A and 171B</heading><content><p>Nothing shall be taken to prevent the imposition of charges by both regulations under section 171A and regulations under section 171B in respect of the same structure, things or excavation at the same time.</p></content></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-70-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>In section 325 of that Act (provisions as to regulations), in subsection (2A)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-70-4-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>in paragraph (a), after “140A” there is inserted “or 140B”;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-70-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p><mod>for paragraphs (b) and (c) there is substituted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the first regulations for the purposes of section 171A or 171B as they apply in relation to the erection of relevant structures, or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>the first regulations for the purposes of section 171A or 171B as they apply in relation to the deposit of building materials, rubbish or other things and the making of temporary excavations,</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></level></subsection></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-5-crossheading-guidance-as-to-safety-precautions"><heading>Guidance as to safety precautions</heading><section eId="section-71"><num>71</num><heading>Guidance to local highway authorities as to safety precautions</heading><content><p><mod>In section 174 of the 1980 Act (precautions to be taken by persons executing works in streets), after subsection (1) there is inserted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(1A)</num><content><p>The Secretary of State may give guidance to local highway authorities as to the discharge by them of their obligations under subsection (1)(a) and (b) where they are executing works for road purposes.</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(1B)</num><content><p>A local highway authority must in executing any works for road purposes have regard to any guidance given under subsection (1A).</p></content></subsection><subsection><num>(1C)</num><content><p>In subsections (1A) and (1B) “works for road purposes” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></section></hcontainer></part>