Part 5Highways and roads
Records of objects placed in highway
65Duty of F1strategic highways company or local highway authority to keep records of objects in highway
(1)
The appropriate national authority may by regulations made by statutory instrument require F2a strategic highways company or a local highway authority to make and keep a record of the location of any object of a description specified in the regulations which has been placed by F3that company or that authority in a street.
(2)
Regulations under this section may include provision—
(a)
as to the form in which a record is to be made;
(b)
as to supplementary information to be included in a record;
(c)
requiring a record to be made available for inspection.
(3)
The reference in subsection (1) to an object placed in a street includes an object placed under, over, across, along or upon a street.
(4)
In this section—
“appropriate national authority” means—
(a)
the Secretary of State, in relation to F4strategic highways companies or local highway authorities in England;
(b)
the National Assembly for Wales, in relation to local highway authorities in Wales;
F5 “ local highway authority ” has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
“ strategic highways company ” means a company for the time being appointed under Part 1 of the Infrastructure Act 2015;
“street” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.
(5)
A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section made by the Secretary of State is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.