New Roads and Street Works Act 1991

7 (1) A relevant authority to whom there is submitted a plan and section of street works proposed to be executed in a street with special engineering difficulties shall give notice to the undertaker— E+W

(a) approving the plan and section without modification, or

(b) objecting to them in form as being on too small a scale or giving insufficient particulars, or

(c) approving them subject to modifications specified in the notice, or

(d) disapproving them.

(2) The notice shall be given without avoidable delay, and at the latest before the end of the period of—

(a) 7 working days in the case of a plan and section of works relating only to—

(i) a service pipe or service line, or

(ii) overhead electric lines or [F1 electronic communications apparatus], and

(b) one month in any other case;

and as between the undertaker and a relevant authority who do not duly give notice before the end of that period, the plan and section as submitted shall be deemed to have been settled by agreement.

(3) The reference in sub-paragraph (2)(a)(i) to a service pipe or service line is to—

(a) a pipe or line through or by means of which a supply of gas, electricity or water is afforded or intended to be afforded to premises—

(i) directly from premises from which the supply originates, or

(ii) from a main, that is, a pipe or line for affording a general supply;

(b) a pipe through or by means of which sewerage services are afforded, or intended to be afforded, which is a private sewer or drain within the meaning of the [F2 Water Industry Act 1991]; or

(c) underground [F1 electronic communications apparatus] for the purpose of providing a service by means of [F3 an electronic communications network] to or from particular premises (as opposed to apparatus for the general purposes of such [F3 a network]).

But so much of any such pipe, line or apparatus as is placed, or intended to be placed, for a continuous length of 100 metres or more in a maintainable highway shall be treated as not being a service pipe or service line.

(4) In this paragraph—

• “electric line” has the same meaning as in Part I of the M1 Electricity Act 1989;

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Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 4 para. 7 substituted (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 108(1)(a)(2) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)

F2 Words in Sch. 4 para. 7(3) substituted (01.12.1991) by Water Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (c. 60, SIF 130), ss. 2(1), 4(2), Sch. 1 para. 57(2).

F3 Words in Sch. 4 para. 7(3)(c) substituted (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 17 para. 108(1)(a)(3) (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)

F4 Words in Sch. 4 para. 7(4) repealed (25.7.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2003 in so far as not already in force) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), s. 411(2), Sch. 19(1) Note 1 (with Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/1900, arts. 1(2), 2(1), Sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended by S.I. 2003/3142, art. 1(3)); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(2) (with art. 11)

Marginal Citations

M1 1989 c. 29.