Traffic Management Act 2004 (c. 18)

Part 5 E+W Highways and roads

Prospective

Records of objects placed in highway E+W

65 Duty of [F1 strategic highways company or] local highway authority to keep records of objects in highway E+W

(1) The appropriate national authority may by regulations made by statutory instrument require [F2 a 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 [F3 that 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 [F4 strategic 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.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 65 heading inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 151(4); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)

F2 Words in s. 65(1) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 151(2)(a); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)

F3 Words in s. 65(1) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 151(2)(b); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)

F4 Words in s. 65(4) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 151(3)(a); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)

F5 Words in s. 65(4) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 151(3)(b); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)