7.—(1) Section 269 shall be amended as follows.
(2) Section 90GA of the Highways Act 1980(1) as it is to be inserted into that Act by subsection (4) shall be amended as follows.
(3) In section 90GA(1) for “subsection (2) and (3)” there shall be substituted “subsections (2), (3) and (4)”.
(4) After section 90GA(3) there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(4) The requirement of this subsection is that the authority concerned complies with such requirements as to consultation and publicity as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State.”