The Contracting Out (Highway Functions) Order 1995

3.  Subject to paragraph 5 below, functions conferred on the Secretary of State as competent authority, by virtue of his being highway authority for a highway, by or under any of the following provisions of the 1980 Act:

(a) section 143(1)(1) (competent authority’s power to give notice requiring removal of structures from highways);

(b) section 154(1) and (2)(2) (competent authority’s to give notice requiring removal of overhanging hedge, tree or shrub); and

(c) section 185(3) (competent authority’s power to install etc refuse or storage bins in streets).

(1)

Section 143(1)(a) was amended by section 8 of, and Schedule 4 to, the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51).

(2)

Section 154(1)(b) was amended by section 8 of, and Schedule 4 to,the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51).

(3)

Section 185(3)(b) was amended by section 190 of, and Schedule 25 to, the Water Act 1989 (c. 15).