Part 5

Highways and roads

Skips, scaffolding, building materials and excavations: charges for occupation of highway etc.

Builders' skips: charge determined by reference to duration of occupation of highway
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After section 140A of the 1980 Act there is inserted—

Builders' skips: charge determined by reference to duration of occupation of highway
140B
1
The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations requiring the owner of a builder's skip deposited on a highway maintainable at the public expense to pay to the highway authority a charge determined, in the prescribed manner, by reference to the period for which the highway is occupied by the skip.
2
The regulations shall not require charges to be paid to a local highway authority unless the Secretary of State has, by order, approved the authority for the purposes of the regulations.
3
The regulations may require disputes of any prescribed description to be referred to an arbitrator appointed in accordance with the regulations.
4
Subsections (4) and (8) to (20) of section 140A apply in relation to regulations under subsection (1) of this section as they apply in relation to regulations under subsection (1) of that section.