The Street Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

• Citation: S.I. 1999/1049
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Street Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into force on 22nd April 1999.

Section 2 Amendment

In Schedule 1 to the Street Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) Regulations 1992 :

(a) after Part II, there shall be inserted the following:

(8A) A street authority shall give written notice of their decision whether to designate any street as one that is to be subject to special controls, in accordance with section 61, 63 or 64 of the Act, to any undertaker on whom they served a copy of a notice under paragraph 2(a), or a notice under paragraph 6(a).

(b) for paragraph 13 there shall be substituted the following:

(13)

(1) When a street manager makes or withdraws a designation he shall notify the highway authority.

(2) When a highway authority make or withdraw a designation, or receive notification from a street manager in accordance with (1) above, they shall:

(i) notify the concessionaire for the time being responsible for maintaining, updating and issuing the National Street Gazetteer forthwith; and

(ii) record such decisions on the street works register on the next following quarter day, except where that day is a public holiday, in which case it shall do so on the following working day.

(c) after the definition of “designation” there shall be inserted the following:

“The National Street Gazetteer” means the national computer database of streets which is provided by the concessionaire for the time being appointed by the Local Government Information House Ltd. ; and

“Quarter day” means 2nd January, 1st April, 1st July and 1st October.