The Street Works (Northern Ireland) Order 1995

Prospective

[F1Notice by authority of proposed restrictionN.I.

2.(1) The street authority may publish a notice—N.I.

(a)specifying the nature and location of the proposed works and the date on which it is proposed to begin them;

(b)stating that the authority proposes to issue a direction under paragraph 4 imposing a restriction on street works;

(c)stating the duration of the proposed restriction and the part of the road to which it relates;

(d)requiring any other undertakers who propose to execute street works in that part of the road, and who have not already done so, to notify the authority of their proposed works within the period specified in the notice (“the notice period”).

(2) The notice period shall not be less than such period as may be prescribed.

(3) A notice under this paragraph shall—

(a)be published in the prescribed form and manner; and

(b)comply with such requirements as to its form and content as may be prescribed.

(4) A copy of a notice under this paragraph shall be given to each of the following—

(a)where there is a public sewer in the part of the road specified under sub-paragraph (1)(c), to the Department;

(b)where that part of the road is carried or crossed by a bridge vested in a transport authority, or crosses or is crossed by any other property held by or used for the purposes of a transport authority, to that authority;

(c)where in any other case that part of the road is carried or crossed by a bridge, to the bridge authority;

(d)any person who has given notice under Article 14 of his intention to execute street works in that part of the road;

(e)any person who has apparatus in that part of the road;

(f)any other person of a prescribed description.

(5) Notification under sub-paragraph (1)(d) shall be in such form, contain such information, and be made in such manner as may be prescribed.

(6) Article 15 does not apply in relation to works in the part of the road specified under sub-paragraph (1)(c) that are begun between the end of the notice period and completion of the works referred to in paragraph 3(1)(a) to (c).

This sub-paragraph does not apply to cases prescribed under paragraph 3(5)(b).]