The Street Works (Inspection Fees) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004

Statutory Instruments

2004 No. 1809 (W.196)

HIGHWAYS, WALES

The Street Works (Inspection Fees) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004

Made

13 July 2004

Coming into force

30 July 2004

The National Assembly for Wales (“the National Assembly”), in exercise of the powers conferred upon the Secretary of State by sections 75 and 104(1) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991(1) and which are now exercisable by the National Assembly in relation to Wales(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and application

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Street Works (Inspection Fees) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2004 and come into force on the 30 July 2004.

(2) These Regulations apply to Wales.

Increase in the inspection fee

2.  In regulation 3(1) of the Street Works (Inspection Fees) Regulations 1992(3) there is to be substituted for the figure of “£20” there the figure of “£21”.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(4)

D. Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

13 July 2004

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations increase, from £20 to £21, the fee payable by undertakers for inspections of their work by street authorities in Wales under regulation 3(1) of the Street Works (Inspection Fees) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/1688).

(1)

1991 c. 22.

(2)

The powers of the Secretary of State, insofar as exercisable in relation to Wales, have been transferred to the National Assembly for Wales: see Article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

(3)

S.I. 1992/1688; regulation 3(1) has been amended by S.I. 1998/978, S.I. 2001/2681 (W.222) and S.I. 2002/3181 (W.297).

(4)

1998 c. 38.