PART 9Road works

Scottish Road Works Commissioner: status and functions

113Functions in relation to the Scottish Road Works Register

1

Section 112A of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (the Scottish Road Works Register) is amended as follows.

2

For subsections (6) and (7) substitute—

6A

The Commissioner is to—

a

make publicly available, in such form and manner as the Commissioner considers appropriate—

i

information contained in the SRWR relating to the timing, location, duration and purpose of works in roads, and

ii

such other information contained in the SRWR as the Scottish Ministers may prescribe, and

b

make information contained in the SRWR available to—

i

any person having authority to execute works of any description in a road, or

ii

any person who does not have that authority, but who appears to the Commissioner to have sufficient interest in the information to be permitted to access it.