The Road Works (Scottish Road Works Register, Notices, Directions and Designations) (Scotland) Regulations 2008

The Scottish Road Works Register

3.—(1) For the purposes of section 112A(2) (the Scottish Road Works Register), the SRWR(1) shall be kept in such form and manner so as to enable the information referred to in paragraphs (2) to (7) relating to a particular road to be traced and shall be indexed and be in a form which complies with the system of street referencing specified in Part I of the publication issued by the British Standards Institution on 15th June 1993 entitled “Spatial data – sets for geographic referencing” under reference No. BS 7666.

(2) For the purposes of section 112B(1) (duty to enter certain information in the Scottish Road Works Register), the prescribed particulars of each road are–

(a) the name of the responsible authority;

(b) the unique street reference number of the road;

(c) the designated name or description allocated to the road by the responsible authority;

(d) the British National Grid co ordinates of the extremity points of the road;

(e) the name of the road works authority;

(f) the reinstatement category of the road as defined in S1.3 and S1.4 of the Specification for the Reinstatement of Openings in Roads (October 2003);

(g) details of any designation of the road as a protected road pursuant to section 121 (supplementary provisions as to designation of protected roads), a traffic sensitive road or a road having special engineering difficulties pursuant to section 122 (roads with special engineering difficulties), as follows–

(i) the type of designation;

(ii) whether it applies to the whole road or a part of it;

(iii) the British National Grid co ordinates of the start and end points of the designation; and

(iv) details of the dates and times when the designation as a traffic-sensitive road applies if it does not apply at all dates and times,

and details of any withdrawal of any such designation;

(h) details of the location and general description of apparatus found in a road and notified to the road works authority under section 139(2)(b) (duty to inform undertakers of location of apparatus);

(i) details of any notice given pursuant to section 144(2)(a) (sharing of cost of necessary measures);

(j) the location and description of works for which plans and sections have been submitted to the road works authority under Schedule 6 to the Act (roads with special engineering difficulties); and

(k) details of any notice given by a road works authority under Schedule 6 to the Act.

(3) For the purposes of section 112B(2), (4) and (5) the information to be entered in the SRWR is prescribed to be as follows–

(i) a unique reference number;

(ii) the date and time of entry;

(iii) the expected start date;

(iv) the expected completion date;

(v) the type of works;

(vi) whether the works are to be carried out in a traffic sensitive road;

(vii) whether the works are to be carried out in a road designated pursuant to section 122 as being a road having special engineering difficulties;

(viii) the location of the works described by the address of the nearest premises, but only where those premises are within 200 metres of the works;

(ix) the unique street reference number of the road in which the works are to be carried out;

(x) the British National Grid co ordinates of the mid-point of the works; and

(xi) a general description of the works.

(4) For the purposes of section 112B(2), the time by which the information listed in paragraph (3) shall be entered in the SRWR is prescribed to be as follows–

(i) in the case of major works, 3 months before the date proposed for the start of the works;

(ii) in the case of standard works in a traffic sensitive road, 1 month before the date proposed for the start of the works;

(iii) in the case of standard works in a road which is not a traffic sensitive road, 7 days before the date proposed for the start of the works;

(iv) in the case of minor works involving excavation in a traffic sensitive road, 1 month before the date proposed for the start of the works;

(v) in the case of minor works involving excavation in a road which is not a traffic sensitive road, by noon on the day before the day on which works are proposed to start; and

(vi) in the case of minor works not involving excavation in a traffic sensitive road, 3 days before the date proposed for the start of the works.

(5) For the purposes of section 112B(3), the information to be entered in the SRWR is prescribed to be a copy of the permission or direction as appropriate.

(6) For the purposes of section 112B(6), the information to be entered in the SRWR is prescribed to be as follows–

(a) the date of the completion of the works; and

(b) the location of the works as completed described by the address of the nearest premises, but only where those premises are within 200 metres of the works.

(7) For the purposes of section 112B(7), the information to be entered in the SRWR in relation to each matter in column (1) of Schedule 1 is prescribed to be that shown in the corresponding entry in column (2) of that Schedule.

(8) For the purposes of section 112B(8), information to be entered in the SRWR under section 112B shall be entered in a form and manner consistent with paragraph 3(1).

(1)

The Scottish Road Works Register. See the definition in section 112A(1) of the Act. Section 112A was inserted by section 19 of the 2005 Act.