The Road Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997

Made: 6th June 1997

Laid before Parliament: 16th June 1997

Coming into force: 7th July 1997

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 112(1), (2), (3) and (6), 123(1) and (2) and 163(1) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Road Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 7th July 1997.

Amendments to the Road Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) (Scotland) Regulations 1992

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The Road Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) (Scotland) Regulations 1992[^f00002] shall be amended as follows:–

• (a) for paragraph (1) of regulation 3 (Road works registers) there shall be substituted:–

(1) Registers shall be kept so as to enable the information referred to in paragraphs (2) and (3) relating to a particular road to be traced and shall be indexed and be in a form which complies with the system of street referencing specified in Part I of the publication issued by the British Standards Institution on 15th June 1993 entitled “Spatial data – sets for geographic referencing” under reference No. BS 7666, provided that where the road is a public road the roads authority shall be identified by a four digit local authority identification code and by unique street identifier numbers for each roads authority all as set out in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.

• (b) in the table below regulation 3(2), for the words “The roads authority” occurring in the second column of the first entry there shall be substituted the words “The undertaker concerned”;

• (c) in regulation 13(1)(a), the words “for at least one hour” shall be inserted before the words “between 7.30am and 9.30am” and before the words “between 3.30pm and 7.00pm”;

• (d) at the end of the Regulations there shall be inserted the following:–

SCHEDULE 3

Signed

Malcolm Chisholm — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 6th June 1997

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Road Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) (Scotland) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2991) (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 2(a) places a new requirement on roads authorities with regard to the form in which they are to keep road works registers as required by section 112 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991. Previously, such registers could be kept in any form. However, by virtue of the amendment introduced in this regulation, such registers will now have to be kept in a form which complies with the system of street referencing specified in the publication issued by the British Standards Institution on 15 June 1993 entitled “Spatial Data sets for geographic referencing. Part I. Specification for a Street Gazetteer” (BS 7666) modified for the purposes of the principal Regulations by Schedule 3 inserted into those Regulations by these Regulations. Copies of the publication BS 7666 maybe obtained from the BSI, Linford Wood, Milton Keynes, MK14 6LE and also from HMSO Bookshops.

Regulation 2(b) amends the table below regulation 3(2) of the principal Regulations to the effect of making the relevant undertaker responsible for securing the registration of certain information instead of the roads authority.

Regulation 2(c) amends regulation 13(1)(a) of the principal Regulations to make it clear that the prohibition or restriction of the parking of vehicles referred to in that paragraph must be for at least one hour between 7.30am and 9.30am and at least one hour between 3.30pm and 7.00pm, but not necessarily for the whole of those periods.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1991 c. 22.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1992/2991.