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;
“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.