Traffic Management Act 2004

65 Duty of local highway authority to keep records of objects in highway

(1) The appropriate national authority may by regulations made by statutory instrument require a local highway authority to make and keep a record of the location of any object of a description specified in the regulations which has been placed by that authority in a street.

(2) Regulations under this section may include provision—

(a) as to the form in which a record is to be made;

(b) as to supplementary information to be included in a record;

(c) requiring a record to be made available for inspection.

(3) The reference in subsection (1) to an object placed in a street includes an object placed under, over, across, along or upon a street.

(4) In this section—

• “appropriate national authority” means—

  (a)

  the Secretary of State, in relation to local highway authorities in England;

  (b)

  the National Assembly for Wales, in relation to local highway authorities in Wales;

• “street” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.

(5) A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section made by the Secretary of State is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.