TABLEE+W Persons to be served with copies of the documents specified in paragraph 3 of this ScheduleE+W
(i)In the case of every order proposed to be made under section 10 or section 106 of this Act, and every order relating to a trunk road proposed to be made under section 14 of this Act—
Every council in whose area any highway or proposed highway to which the proposed order relates is situated.
(ii)In the case of an order proposed to be made under section 10, 14, 18 or 108(1) of this Act which provides for the construction of a bridge over or tunnel under navigable waters or for the diversion of a navigable watercourse, and in the case of every order proposed to be made under section 106 of this Act—
[F1The National Rivers Authority and every navigation authority] concerned with or having jurisdiction over the waters affected or the area comprising those waters or that watercourse. . . F2
(iii)In the case of an order proposed to be made under section 18 of this Act or an order relating to a classified road, proposed to be made under section 14 of this Act, which (in either case) authorises the carrying out of any works—
Every council in whose area any works authorised by the proposed order are to be carried out.
(iv)In the case of an order under section 18 of this Act, or an order relating to a classified road under section 14 of this Act, which (in either case) provides for transferring any highway from one highway authority to another—
The highway authorities to and from whom the highway is to be transferred.
(v)In the case of an order proposed to be made under section 14 or 18 of this Act which authorises the stopping up of any private means of access to any premises—
The owner (within the meaning of section 21 of this Act) and the occupier of those premises.
(vi)In the case of an order proposed to be made under section 14 or 18 of this Act which authorises the stopping up or diversion of any highway—
The council or, in the case of a parish not having a separate council, the parish meeting, of every parish in which the highway is situated and the council of every community in which the highway is situated.
Any public utility undertakers having apparatus under, in, upon, over, along or across the highway.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by Water Act 1989 (c. 15, SIF 130), ss. 58(7), 101(1), 141(6), 160(1)(2)(4), 163, 189(4)–(10), 190, 193(1), Sch. 25 para. 62(14)(a), Sch. 26 paras. 3(1)(2), 17, 40(4), 57(6), 58
F2Words repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 102, Sch. 17
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Sch. 1 para. 3 Table para. (i) modified (22.7.2008) by Transport for London Act 2008 (c. i), ss. 1, 31(2)(b) (with ss. 31(3), 48)
4E+WWhere the proposed order authorises the stopping up or diversion of a highway, the Minister or the local highway authority, as the case may be, shall, not later than the day on which the said notice is published or, if it is published on 2 or more days, the day on which it is first published, cause a copy of it to be displayed in a prominent position at the ends of so much of any highway as is proposed to be stopped up or diverted under the order.
5E+WAt any time, whether before or after the expiration of the period specified in the notice in pursuance of paragraph (1)(b) above, the Minister or the local highway authority, as the case may be, by whom the notice was published may, by a subsequent notice published in at least one local newspaper circulating in the area in which any highway, or any proposed highway, to which the proposed order relates is situated, and in the London Gazette, substitute for the period specified in the first notice such longer period as may be specified in the subsequent notice.
6E+WWhere the period specified in a notice published by the Minister or a local highway authority under paragraph 1 above is extended by a notice published under paragraph 5 above, paragraph 3 above shall apply as if the notice under paragraph 5 were a notice under paragraph 1, but the foregoing provision shall not be taken as requiring a copy of the proposed order or of any map or plan referred to in that order to be served on a person on whom it was previously served.
7(1)If any objection to the proposed order is received by the Minister—E+W
(a)from any person on whom a copy of the notice is required to be served under paragraph 3 above within the period specified in the notice in pursuance of paragraph (1)(b) above or, if that period has been extended by a subsequent notice under paragraph 5 above, within the period specified in the subsequent notice, or
(b)from any other person appearing to him to be affected within the period specified in the notice or the subsequent notice, as the case may be,
and the objection is not withdrawn, then—
(i)in the case of an order proposed to be made by the Minister, the Minister and the Secretary of State acting jointly, or
(ii)in the case of an order made by a local highway authority and submitted to the Minister, the Minister,
shall, subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, cause a local inquiry to be held.
(2)Except where the objection is made by a person entitled to receive a copy of the notice relating to the order in question by virtue of paragraph 3 above and such one or more of the following heads of the Table set out at the end of that paragraph, that is to say, heads (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv), as apply in the case of that order, the Minister and the Secretary of State acting jointly or, as the case may be, the Minister may, if satisfied that in the circumstances of the case the holding of an inquiry under this paragraph is unnecessary, dispense with such an inquiry.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C2Sch. 1 para. 7: functions transferred (25.11.2002) by The Transfer of Functions (Transport, Local Government and the Regions) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2626), arts. 5, 7 (with art. 8)
8(1)After any objections to the proposed order which are not withdrawn and, where a local inquiry is held, the report of the person who held the inquiry have been considered—E+W
(a)in the case of an order proposed to be made by the Minister, by the Minister and the Secretary of State acting jointly, or
(b)in the case of an order made by a local highway authority and submitted to the Minister, by the Minister,
the Minister may make or confirm the order either without modification or subject to such modifications as he thinks fit.
(2)The power under this paragraph to make or confirm the order includes power to make or confirm it so far as relating to part of the proposals contained in it (either without modification or subject to such modifications as the Minister thinks fit) while deferring consideration of the remaining part; and where the Minister makes or confirms part of the order, that part and the remaining part are each to be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be a separate order.
(3)Where the Minister proposes to exercise the power to make or confirm the order subject to modifications, and the modifications will in his opinion make a substantial change in the order—
(a)he shall notify any person who appears to him to be likely to be affected by the proposed modifications;
(b)he shall give that person an opportunity of making representations to him with respect to the modifications within such reasonable period as he may specify; and
(c)before he exercises the power, the Minister or, in the case of an order proposed to be made by the Minister, the Minister and the Secretary of State acting jointly shall consider any representations made to the Minister with respect to the proposed modifications within that period.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C3Sch. 1 para. 8: functions transferred (25.11.2002) by The Transfer of Functions (Transport, Local Government and the Regions) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/2626), arts. 5, 7 (with art. 8)
9E+WIn this Part of this Schedule references to a proposed order or an order proposed to be made include references to an order made by a local highway authority and submitted to the Minister.