The Street Works Register (Registration Fees) Regulations 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/1048
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Street Works Register (Registration Fees) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 1st June 1999.

Section 2 Citation and commencement

In these Regulations:–

“ the Act ” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991;

“the 1992 Regulations ” means the Street Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) Regulations 1992 ;

“ the Code ” means the Code of Practice entitled “Code of Practice for the Co-ordination of Street Works and Works for Road Purposes and Related Matters” dated November 1992 as approved by the Secretary of State on 8th March 1993 and this includes references to that document as revised or re-issued from time to time;

“prescribed information” means the information required to be given by an undertaker to a highway authority pursuant to regulation 3 of the 1992 Regulations for registration on a street works register; and

“street works register” means a register required to be kept in pursuance of section 53 of the Act.

Section 3 Citation and commencement

Upon the registration of prescribed information by an undertaker, in accordance with regulation 3 of the 1992 Regulations, that undertaker shall pay to the appropriate highway authority the fee prescribed in regulation 4(1) below subject to regulation 4(2).

Section 4 Citation and commencement

(1) The fee payable under regulation 3 above shall be £21.20 for the first item of prescribed information registered in each calendar month, commencing on 1st June 1999, and £1.20 for every subsequent item registered in that month in respect of the same undertaker.

(2) No fee shall be payable where registration of an item of prescribed information is effected in consequence of its transmission by direct communication between computers in accordance with the method set out in the Code.