Part 5

Highways and roads

Records of objects placed in highway

Duty of strategic highways company or local highway authority to keep records of objects in highway
65
1
The appropriate national authority may by regulations made by statutory instrument require a strategic highways company or a local highway authority to make and keep a record of the location of any object of a description specified in the regulations which has been placed by that company or that authority in a street.
2
Regulations under this section may include provision—
a
as to the form in which a record is to be made;
b
as to supplementary information to be included in a record;
c
requiring a record to be made available for inspection.
3
The reference in subsection (1) to an object placed in a street includes an object placed under, over, across, along or upon a street.
4
In this section—
- “appropriate national authority” means—
  1. the Secretary of State, in relation to strategic highways companies or local highway authorities in England;
  2. the National Assembly for Wales, in relation to local highway authorities in Wales;
- “
local highway authority
” has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
- “
strategic highways company
” means a company for the time being appointed under Part 1 of the Infrastructure Act 2015;
- “street” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.
5
A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section made by the Secretary of State is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
Words in s. 65(4) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 151(3)(b); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
Words in s. 65(4) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 151(3)(a); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
Words in s. 65 heading inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 151(4); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
Words in s. 65(1) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 151(2)(a); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)
Words in s. 65(1) inserted (5.3.2015) by Infrastructure Act 2015 (c. 7), s. 57(1), Sch. 1 para. 151(2)(b); S.I. 2015/481, reg. 2(a)