2011 No. 92
Roads And Bridges
The Road Works (Fixed Penalty) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011
Made 10th February 2011
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 14th February 2011
Coming into force 1st April 2011

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 2 of Schedule 6B to the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
1991 c.22. Schedule 6B was inserted by the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 (asp 12), section 34 and Schedule 5. See section 163(1) of that Act for a definition of “prescribed”. The functions of the Secretary of State, so far as they were exercisable within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).
In accordance with section 163A of that Act they have consulted with such—
Section 163A was inserted by section 39 of the 2005 Act.
(a) persons considered by them to be representative of the interests of undertakers;
(b) road works authorities; and
(c) other persons,
as they think appropriate.

1 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as the Road Works (Fixed Penalty) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011 and come into force on 1st April 2011.

2 Amendment of the Road Works (Fixed Penalty) (Scotland) Regulations 2008
In regulation 6 (time limit for giving fixed penalty notice) of the Road Works (Fixed Penalty) (Scotland) Regulations 2008 for “60” substitute “91”.
S.S.I. 2008/244.
KEITH BROWN Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 10th February 2011

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations provide for an increase in the time period for giving a fixed penalty notice from 60 days to 91 days under regulation 6 of the Road Works (Fixed Penalty) (Scotland) Regulations 2008.