3(1)The Highways Act 1980 shall be amended as provided in this paragraph.
(2)In subsection (9) of section 20 (restriction on laying apparatus in special roads), after the words “Post Office” there shall be inserted the words “and the operator of a driver information system”.
(3)In section 116 (power of magistrates' court to authorise stopping up or diversion of highway subject to arrangements for apparatus of statutory undertakers), at the end there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(11)In this section “statutory undertakers” includes operators of driver information systems.”
(4)In subsection (5) of section 142 (licence to plant trees, shrubs, etc., in a highway), at the end there shall be inserted the words “or driver information systems”.
(5)In subsection (6) of section 144 (power to erect flagpoles etc. on highways), at the end there shall be inserted the words “or a driver information system”.
(6)In subsection (4) of section 156 (which authorises overhead telegraphic lines), after the words “overhead telecommunication apparatus” there shall be inserted the words “,overhead apparatus of a driver information system”.
(7)In subsection (4) of section 169 (control of scaffolding on highways), at the end there shall be inserted the words “or a driver information system”.
(8)In subsection (3) of section 170 (control of mixing of mortar etc. on highways), at the end there shall be inserted the words “or a driver information system”.
(9)In subsection (4) of section 177 (restriction on construction of buildings over highways), at the end there shall be inserted the words “or a driver information system”.
(10)In subsection (5) of section 178 (restriction on placing of apparatus over highways), after the words “telecommunications code system” there shall be inserted the words “or a driver information system”.
(11)In section 181 (provisions relating to placing of apparatus in or under a highway)—
(a)in subsection (8), after the words “telecommunications code system” there shall be inserted the words “or a driver information system”, and at the end there shall be inserted the words “or, as the case may be, section 12 of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989”; and
(b)in subsection (9), at the end there shall be inserted the words “or a driver information system”.
(12)In section 256 (power of highway authority to exchange land to adjust boundaries of highways subject to arrangements for apparatus of statutory undertakers), after subsection (6) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(6A)In this section “statutory undertakers” includes operators of driver information systems.”
(13)In subsection (1) of section 329 (definitions), after the definition of “drainage authority” there shall be inserted the following definition—
““driver information system” has the same meaning as in Part II of the Road Traffic (Driver Licensing and Information Systems) Act 1989, and references to an “operator” of a driver information system are references to an operator licensed under that Part of that Act;”.
(14)In Schedule 12 (provisions as to orders under s.116 and conveyances under s.256), at the end there shall be inserted the following—
“PART IIIInterpretation
11In this Schedule, “statutory undertakers” includes operators of driver information systems.”