Version Superseded: 05/03/2015
Point in time view as at 22/08/2013. This version of this provision has been superseded.
New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, Section 6 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 10 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)An order authorising the charging of tolls (a “toll order”) may be made in relation to a special road proposed to be provided by a highway authority.
The order shall state whether it authorises the charging of tolls by a concessionaire or by the highway authority.
[F1(1A)Subsection (1) is subject to section 33(4) of the Planning Act 2008 (exclusion of powers to make or confirm orders in relation to highways for which development consent required).]
(2)A toll order relating to a special road to be provided by the Secretary of State shall be made by the Secretary of State; and a toll order relating to a special road to be provided by a local highway authority shall be made by the authority and confirmed by the Secretary of State.
(3)Schedule 2 has effect as to the making or confirmation of a toll order and as to its validity and date of operation.
(4)The proceedings required to be taken in relation to a toll order shall (so far as practicable) be taken concurrently with the proceedings required to be taken under the M1Highways Act 1980 in relation to the special road scheme authorising the provision of the road to which the order relates.
(5)The Secretary of State shall not make or confirm the scheme or the toll order unless he makes or confirms them both.
(6)The power conferred on the Secretary of State by this section to make or confirm a toll order is exercisable by statutory instrument.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 6(1A) inserted (1.3.2010) by Planning Act 2008 (c. 29), s. 241(8), Sch. 2 para. 49 (with s. 226); S.I. 2010/101, art. 2 (with art. 6)
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