The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1991

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 1st November 1991 the provisions of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 which are specified in the Schedule to the order. Those provisions relate to—

(a) concession agreements, namely agreements entered into by a highway authority under which a person in return for undertaking obligations in respect of a road is appointed to enjoy the right (conferred or to be conferred by a toll order) to charge tolls in respect of the use of the road (section 1 to 5 and Schedule 1);

(b) toll orders, and the collection of tolls under those orders (sections 6 to 17 and Schedule 2);

(c) environmental assessments of projects involving special roads (section 19), classification of traffic for the purposes of special roads (section 20), the adoption of privately constructed roads (section 22), substituting for section 278 of the Highways Act 1980 (c. 66) a new section of the same number which extends the scope and application of the old section (section 23);

(d) matters incidental to those mentioned above (sections 18, 21, 24, 25, 26 and 168 and parts of sections 166, 167 and 169 and Schedules 8 and 9); and

(e) commencement (section 170) and citation (section 171).