Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Private Streets (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 so as to—
(a)bring street lighting within the definition of “street works”;
(b)enable the Department to require the improvement of a public road joined by a street in relation to which the Department exercises street planning functions;
(c)enable the Department to stop up streets constructed otherwise than in conformity with a determination of the Department or constructed before the Department has exercised its street planning functions in relation to the street;
(d)enable regulations to provide for the bearing of expenses in connection with the inspection and testing of works for the construction of private streets and enable the Department to recover expenses in connection with the registration of statutory charges under the Order; and
(e)enable the Department, on request, not to adopt certain private streets as public roads.