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The Infrastructure Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2015

S.I. 2015/1543 · Made 15 July 2015

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Infrastructure Planning

Made 15th July 2015

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 57(2) of the Infrastructure Act 2015f1:

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Footnotes

f1

2015 c.7.

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Provisions coming into force on 31st July 2015
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

These Regulations may be cited as the Infrastructure Act 2015 (Commencement No. 3) Regulations 2015.

2Provisions coming into force on 31st July 2015

Part 2 (cycling and walking investment strategies) of the Infrastructure Act 2015 comes into force on 31st July 2015.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport

Robert Goodwill

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Transport

15th July 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations bring into force Part 2 of the Infrastructure Act 2015 (c.7) (“the Act”).

Part 2 places a duty on the Secretary of State to set a Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (“the Strategy”) for England, to review or replace the Strategy regularly (at least once every five years) and to report periodically to Parliament on progress towards meeting its objectives.

An impact assessment of the effect the Act will have on the costs of business and the voluntary sector has been produced, and a copy is available at http://www.parliament.uk/documents/impact-assessments/IA15-003.pdf. No separate impact assessment has been produced for this instrument.