Part 5Highways and roads
Records of objects placed in highway
65Duty 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;
- a
“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.