The Street Works (Records) (England) Regulations 2002

Exceptions

5.  The duty in section 79(1) of the Act to keep a record of the location of every item of apparatus shall not apply:—

(a) where compliance would lead to the disclosure of the following types of restricted information:

(i) information certified by or with the authority of the Secretary of State as being restricted information in the interest of national security;

(ii) information certified by or with the authorisation of an undertaker as being restricted information in accordance with the commercial interests of the undertaker;

(b) to any apparatus placed by an undertaker in the street within its existing apparatus where the location of the existing apparatus has already been recorded in a form prescribed by regulation 3;

(c) to any apparatus placed in the street prior to the date on which these Regulations came into force;

(d) to any apparatus belonging to an undertaker which is discovered by him in the street during the course of emergency works or urgent works carried out by him;

(e) to any apparatus not installed underground; and

(f) to service pipes and lines.