2019 No. 96
The Scottish Road Works Register (Prescribed Fees) Regulations 2019
Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 112A(4) and 163(1) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 19911 and all other powers enabling them to do so.
In accordance with section 163A of that Act2 they have consulted with such—
persons considered by them to be representative of the interests of undertakers,
road works authorities, and
other persons,
as they think appropriate.
Citation and commencement1
These Regulations may be cited as the Scottish Road Works Register (Prescribed Fees) Regulations 2019 and come into force on 3 May 2019.
Interpretation2
In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991,
“financial year 2019/20” means the period of 12 months commencing on 1 April 2019,
“relevant period” means the period of 12 months ending on 31 December 2018,
“relevant undertaker” means an undertaker who has entered a notice in the SRWR3 in the relevant period,
“undertaker” has the same meaning as in section 107(4) of the Act but excludes those persons granted permission under section 109 of the Act to execute road works.
Prescribed fees3
1
This regulation applies in respect of the period from 3 May 2019 to 31 March 2020.
2
3
Payment to the Commissioner of the prescribed fee, calculated in accordance with paragraph (6), is a condition of access to the SRWR by relevant undertakers under section 112A(3) of the Act.
4
Payments due to the Commissioner under this regulation must be made within 30 days of receipt of the invoice from the Commissioner.
5
For each roads authority, the prescribed fee for the purposes of section 112A(4)(a) of the Act must be calculated in accordance with the formula—
where—
R is the figure shown in column 2 of the schedule of these Regulations in relation to the roads authority specified in the corresponding entry in column 1 of the schedule to which the calculation relates, and
£A is the total amount payable to the Commissioner by way of prescribed amounts for financial year 2019/20 pursuant to regulation 3 of the Scottish Road Works Register (Prescribed Fees and Amounts) Regulations 20086.
6
For each relevant undertaker, the prescribed fee for the purposes of section 112A(4)(a) of the Act must be calculated in accordance with the formula—
where—
N is the number of notices entered by the relevant undertaker to which the calculation relates in the SRWR in the relevant period,
TN is the total number of notices entered by all relevant undertakers in the SRWR in the relevant period, and
£A has the same meaning as in paragraph (5).
Revocation4
SCHEDULEFIGURE FOR ROADS AUTHORITIES IN RELATION TO FORMULA FOR CALCULATION OF PRESCRIBED FEES AT REGULATION 3(5)
Column 1 Roads Authority | Column 2 Figure |
---|---|
Aberdeen City | 0.018 |
Aberdeenshire | 0.018 |
Angus | 0.006 |
Argyll & Bute | 0.003 |
City of Edinburgh | 0.024 |
Clackmannanshire | 0.003 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 0.0006 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 0.006 |
Dundee City | 0.009 |
East Ayrshire | 0.009 |
East Dunbartonshire | 0.006 |
East Lothian | 0.006 |
East Renfrewshire | 0.006 |
Falkirk | 0.006 |
Fife | 0.012 |
Glasgow City | 0.03 |
Highland | 0.006 |
Inverclyde | 0.006 |
Midlothian | 0.006 |
Moray | 0.009 |
North Ayrshire | 0.012 |
North Lanarkshire | 0.012 |
Orkney Islands | 0.0012 |
Perth & Kinross | 0.009 |
Renfrewshire | 0.009 |
Scottish Borders | 0.012 |
The Scottish Ministers | 0.056 |
Shetland Islands | 0.0012 |
South Ayrshire | 0.006 |
South Lanarkshire | 0.009 |
Stirling | 0.009 |
West Dunbartonshire | 0.009 |
West Lothian | 0.015 |
(This note is not part of the Regulations)