s 65 Duty of strategic highways company or local highway authority to keep records of objects in highway
(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— the Secretary of State, in relation to strategic highways companies or local highway authorities in England; 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.