Explanatory note

This Order enables local highway authorities to authorise another person, or that person’s employees, to exercise certain of their functions in relation to street works in highways in respect of which they are the highway authority. Those functions relate to fees to be paid by undertakers to a highway authority on the registration of specified information on a street works register; to the sharing of costs of works required to divert undertakers' apparatus where these are occasioned by major highway, bridge or transport works; and to charges payable to a highway authority by an undertaker whose street works are unreasonably prolonged.