Welsh Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 258 (W.28)

HIGHWAYS, WALES

The Street Works (Inspection Fees) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

Made

10 February 2009

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

11 February 2009

Coming into force

1 April 2009

Title, commencement and application

1.  The title of these Regulations is the Street Works (Inspection Fees) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009. They come into force on 1 April 2009 and apply in relation to Wales.

Amendment to the Street Works (Inspection Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2006

2.  The Street Works (Inspection Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2006, as amended(3) are further amended in accordance with regulation 3.

3.  In regulation 3, in paragraphs (1) and (8), for “£25.00” substitute “£50.00”.

Ieuan Wyn Jones

Minister for the Economy and Transport, one of the Welsh Ministers.

10 February 2009

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Street Works (Inspection Fees) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (“the 2008 Regulations”). The 2008 Regulations further amended the Street Works (Inspection Fees) (Wales) Regulations 2006 (“the 2006 Regulations”) so as to increase the fee payable by undertakers for inspections of their work by street authorities in Wales, under regulation 3 of the 2006 Regulations.

The fee originally prescribed in the 2006 Regulations was £21. The fee was altered to £24 in July 2007 by the Street Works (Inspection Fees) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007 No.1713 (W.150)), and was increased to £25 by the 2008 Regulations. The fee is now further increased to £50.

(2)

The functions of the Secretary of State under sections 75 and 104(1) were transferred, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672), article 2 and Schedule 1. Section 75 is prospectively substituted by section 58(2) of the Traffic Management Act 2004 (c. 18). The functions of the National Assembly for Wales under the said sections 75 and 104(1) were transferred to the Welsh Ministers by virtue of paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to the Government of Wales Act 2006.

(3)

S.I. 2006/1532 (W.150). These Regulations have previously been amended by the Street Works (Inspection Fees) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1713 (W.150) and by the Street Works (Inspection Fees) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/1213 (W.121)).