The Street Works Register (Registration Fees) Regulations 1999

Made: 28th March 1999

Laid before Parliament: 31st March 1999

Coming into force: 1st June 1999

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of their powers under sections 53(6) and 104(1) and (3) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991¹ and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:–

Citation and commencement

1

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

2

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 1992²;

• “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.

3

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).

4

• (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.

Signed

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Glenda Jackson — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions — 25th March 1999

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Peter Hain — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office — 28th March 1999

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations make provision for the payment of a fee by an undertaker to a highway authority on the registration of specified information on a street works register kept by a highway authority. The Regulations further provide (regulation 4(2)) that no fee is payable where information to be registered on a street works register is transmitted to a highway authority in accordance with the Code of Practice for the Co-ordination of Street Works and Works for Road Purposes and Related Matters. The Code (reference ISBN 0 11 551162 8) is published by The Stationery Office (TSO) (formerly HMSO) and can be obtained fr-om HMSO bookshops. An appendix to that Code dealing with electronic transmission will be published on 26th March 1999 and can be obtained from HMSO bookshops at that time.

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