The Noise Insulation Regulations 1975

Local authorities as agents of highway authorities

14.—(1) A local authority may, subject to and in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations, act as agent for the appropriate highway authority in the discharge and exercise of its duties and powers under these Regulations.

(2) The appropriate highway authority alone, and not the agent local authority, unless that authority is also acting as agent of the appropriate highway authority in the construction or alteration of the highway or carriageway in relation to which the functions are exercisable—

(a) shall determine the buildings in respect of which insulation work or a grant in respect of such work shall be offered, and

(b) shall consider and determine applications made under paragraph (1) of Regulation 13.

(3) The appropriate highway authority shall reimburse to each local authority the amounts paid by them as agent under these Regulations.

(4) The appropriate highway authority shall pay to each local authority such sums as may be reasonable in respect of the services rendered to them by that authority under these Regulations.

(5) In this Regulation “local authority” means —

(a) elsewhere than in Greater London, the council of a county or a district within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1972;

(b) in Greater London, the Greater London Council, the council of a London borough and the Common Council of the City of London.