The Road Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) (Scotland) Regulations 1992

Substantial works

9.—(1) For the purposes of section 117(1), substantial works means works for road purposes which comprise a reconstruction, widening, alteration in the level, resurfacing or specialist non-skid surface dressing of the part of the road concerned; and

(a) if executed in a footpath, footway, bridleway or cycle track, extend for more than 30 metres of continuous length and result in the width of the footpath or cycle track available for pedestrians or cyclists, as the case may be, being reduced by more than two-thirds; and

(b) if carried out in the carriageway, extend for more than 30 metres of continuous length and result in the use by vehicles of the carriageway being prohibited or the width of the carriageway available for vehicular traffic being reduced by more than one-third.

(2) A notice under section 117 in relation to a restriction on works following substantial works carried out for road purposes shall be published on two consecutive weeks in at least one newspaper circulating in the locality likely to be affected by the proposed restriction, and in addition in an edition of the Edinburgh Gazette published no later than the date of the publication of the last of the said newspaper notices.

(3) For the purposes of section 117(5), in addition to the works specified in that subsection, the following works may be executed by an undertaker:—

(a) urgent works;

(b) works required to respond to a request for a new service or supply to a customer which was not received at a time when it was practicable for the works to be done before the period of restriction began; and

(c) the following:—

(i) works not involving breaking up the road,

(ii) repairing, resetting and replacing manhole or chamber covers and frames,

(iii) resurfacing up to 20 square metres,

(iv) pole, lamp, column or sign replacement in the same location,

(v) pole testing, and

(vi) works of a similar nature.