New Roads and Street Works Act 1991

[F1112AThe Scottish Road Works RegisterS

(1)The Scottish Road Works Commissioner (in this Part, “the Commissioner”) shall keep a register, to be known as the Scottish Road Works Register (in this Part, “the SRWR”).

(2)The SRWR shall be kept in such form and manner as may be prescribed.

(3)The Commissioner shall make arrangements so as to enable any person who is required, by a provision of this Act, to enter particulars, information or a notice in the SRWR, to have access to the SRWR for that purpose.

(4)The Scottish Ministers may by regulations—

(a)provide that the payment to the Commissioner of the prescribed fee is a condition of access to the SRWR as mentioned in subsection (3) (and different fees may be prescribed for access for different purposes), and

(b)make other provision as to the payment to the Commissioner by such persons as are prescribed of such amounts as are prescribed.

(5)Amounts received by the Commissioner under subsection (4) are to be applied by the Commissioner to the keeping of the SRWR.

[F2(6A)The Commissioner is to—

(a)make publicly available, in such form and manner as the Commissioner considers appropriate—

(i)information contained in the SRWR relating to the timing, location, duration and purpose of works in roads, and

(ii)such other information contained in the SRWR as the Scottish Ministers may prescribe, and

(b)make information contained in the SRWR available to—

(i)any person having authority to execute works of any description in a road, or

(ii)any person who does not have that authority, but who appears to the Commissioner to have sufficient interest in the information to be permitted to access it.]]

Textual Amendments

F1Ss. 112A, 112B substituted for s. 112 (29.2.2008 for specified purposes, 1.4.2008 in so far as not already in force) by Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 12), ss. 19(1), 54(2); S.S.I. 2008/15, art. 2(1)(2), sch. 1 (with art. 3) (as amended (5.3.2008) by S.S.I. 2008/90, art. 2)