1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Highway Functions) Order 1999 and shall come into force on the day after the day on which it is made.
(2) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires:
“the 1980 Act” means the Highways Act 1980(1);
“the 1991 Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991(2);
“highway” has the same meaning as it has in section 328 of the 1980 Act;
“highway authority” has the same meaning as it has in section 1(3) of the 1980 Act;
“highway connected land” means land which does not form part of the highway but which has been acquired by a local highway authority in connection with a highway under section 239(1) or (4) or section 246 of the 1980 Act or otherwise; and
“local highway authority” has the meaning given in section 329(1) of the 1980 Act.
(3) In Schedule 1 to this Order, any expression used in the 1980 Act has the same meaning as it has in that Act unless the context otherwise requires.
(4) In Schedule 2 to this Order, any expression used in the 1991 Act has the same meaning as it has in that Act unless the context otherwise requires.
2. Any function of a local highway authority which is conferred by or under any of the provisions described in Schedule 1, 2 or 3 to this Order may be exercised by, or by employees of, such person (if any) as may be authorised in that behalf by the local highway authority whose function it is.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Glenda Jackson
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
20th July 1999
Signed by the authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Peter Hain
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
22nd July 1999