PART 1PRELIMINARY
Application of the 1991 Act3
1
Works executed under this Order in relation to a highway which consists of or includes a carriageway are to be treated for the purposes of Part 3 of the 1991 Act as major transport works if—
a
they are of a description mentioned in any of paragraphs (a), (c) to (e), (g) and (h) of section 86(3) (which defines what highway authority works are major highway works) of that Act; or
b
they are works which, had they been executed by the highway authority, might have been carried out in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6414 (dual carriageways and roundabouts) of the 1980 Act.
2
The provisions of the 1991 Act mentioned in paragraph (3) (which, together with other provisions of that Act, apply in relation to the carrying out of street works) and any regulations made, or code of practice issued or approved under, those provisions apply (with the necessary modifications) in relation to any stopping up, alteration or diversion of a street of a temporary nature by Network Rail under the powers conferred by article 10 (temporary stopping up of streets) and the carrying out of works under article 8 (power to execute street works) whether or not the stopping up, alteration or diversion, or the carrying out of such works, constitutes street works within the meaning of that Act.
3
The provisions of the 1991 Act15 referred to in paragraph (2) are—
section 5916 (general duty of street authority to co-ordinate works);
section 60 (general duty of undertakers to co-operate);
section 68 (facilities to be afforded to street authority);
section 69 (works likely to affect other apparatus in the street);
section 76 (liability for cost of temporary traffic regulation); and
section 77 (liability for cost of use of alternative route);
and all such other provisions as apply for the purposes of the provisions mentioned above.
4
Nothing in article 11 (construction and maintenance of new or altered streets)—
a
prejudices the operation of section 87 (prospectively maintainable highways) of the 1991 Act; and Network Rail is not, by reason of any duty under that article to maintain a street, to be taken to be a street authority in relation to that street for the purposes of Part 3 of that Act; or
b
has effect in relation to street works with regard to which the provisions of Part 3 of the 1991 Act apply.