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—

    1. a

      the Secretary of State, in relation to F4strategic highways companies or local highway authorities in England;

    2. 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.