Part 4E+WStreet works

MiscellaneousE+W

Prospective

50Qualifications of supervisors and operativesE+W

(1)Section 67 of the 1991 Act (qualifications of supervisors and operatives) is amended as follows.

(2)After subsection (1) there is inserted—

(1A)A street authority may (unless the case is one excepted from subsection (1)) by notice require an undertaker executing street works—

(a)to notify them of the name of—

(i)the person who is currently the qualified supervisor required by subsection (1); and

(ii)each person who has previously been the qualified supervisor so required; and

(b)to provide them with such evidence of the requisite qualification of each person named as may be prescribed.

(3)After subsection (2) there is inserted—

(2A)A street authority may (unless the case is one excepted from subsection (2)) by notice require an undertaker executing street works—

(a)to notify them of the name of—

(i)a person whose presence on site at any time specified in the notice (being a time when the works were in progress) enabled the undertaker to comply with his duty under subsection (2); or

(ii)each person whose presence on site during the progress of the works enabled the undertaker to comply with his duty in subsection (2); and

(b)to provide them with such evidence of the requisite qualification of each person named as may be prescribed.

(2B)A notice under subsection (1A) or (2A) may be given at any time while the works are being executed or within such period after their completion as may be prescribed.

(2C)The undertaker shall comply with a notice under subsection (1A) or (2A) within such period as may be prescribed.

(4)In subsection (3) for “or (2)” there is substituted “ , (2) or (2C) ”.

(5)In subsection (4), after paragraph (b) there is inserted and

(c)the form of any document to be issued by an approved body to certify or otherwise show that a qualification has been conferred on any person.