Article 4 Application of the 1991 ActI1

England and Wales

(1)

Works executed under this Order in relation to a highway which consists of or includes a carriageway are treated for the purposes of Part 3 of the 1991 Act (street works) as major transport works if—

(a)

they are of a description mentioned in any of paragraphs (a), (c) to (e), (g) and (h) of section 86(3) of that Act (which defines what highway authority works are major highway works); or

(b)

they are works which, had they been executed by the highway authority, might have been carried out in exercise of the powers conferred by section 64^f1 of the 1980 Act (dual carriageways and roundabouts).

(2)

The following provisions of the 1991 Act do not apply in relation to any works executed under the powers conferred by this Order—

section 56 (directions as to timing);
section 56A (power to give directions as to placing of apparatus);
section 58 (restrictions following substantial road works);
section 73A (power to require undertaker to re-surface street);
section 73B (power to specify timing, etc., of re-surfacing);
section 73C (materials, workmanship and standard of re-surfacing);
section 78A (contributions to costs of re-surfacing by undertaker); and
Schedule 3A (restriction on works following substantial street works).

(3)

The provisions of the 1991 Act mentioned in paragraph (4) which, together with other provisions of that Act, apply in relation to the execution of street works and any regulations made or code of practice issued or approved under those provisions apply (with the necessary modifications) in relation to any stopping up, alteration or diversion of a street of a temporary nature by Network Rail under the powers conferred by article 9 (temporary stopping up of streets) whether or not the stopping up, alteration or diversion constitutes street works within the meaning of that Act.

(4)

The provisions of the 1991 Act^f2 referred to in paragraph (3) are—

section 54^f3 (advance notice of certain works), subject to paragraph (5);
section 55^f4 (notice of starting date of works), subject to paragraph (5);
section 57^f5 (notice of emergency works);
section 59^f6 (general duty of street authority to co-ordinate works);
section 60 (general duty of undertakers to co-operate);
section 68 (facilities to be afforded to street authority);
section 69 (works likely to affect other apparatus in the street);
section 76 (liability for cost of temporary traffic regulation); and
section 77 (liability for cost of use of alternative route),

and all such other provisions as apply for the purposes of the provisions mentioned above.

(5)

Sections 54 and 55 of the 1991 Act as applied by paragraph (3) have effect as if references in section 57 of that Act to emergency works were a reference to a stopping up, alteration or diversion (as the case may be) required in a case of emergency.

(6)

Nothing in article 11 (construction and maintenance of altered streets)—

(a)

prejudices the operation of section 87 of the 1991 Act (prospectively maintainable highways), and Network Rail is not by reason of any duty under that article to maintain a street to be taken to be a street authority in relation to that street for the purposes of Part 3 of that Act; or

(b)

has effect in relation to street works with regard to which the provisions of Part 3 of the 1991 Act apply.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 4 in force at 19.8.2014, see art. 1

Footnotes

f1: As amended by section 102 of, and Schedule 17 to, the Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51) and section 168(2) of, and Schedule 9 to, the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22).
f2: Sections 54, 55, 57, 60, 68 and 69 were amended by section 40(1) and (2) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Traffic Management Act 2004 (c. 18).
f3: As also amended by section 49(1) of the Traffic Management Act 2004.
f4: As also amended by section 49(2) and 51(9) of the Traffic Management Act 2004.
f5: As also amended by section 52(3) of the Traffic Management Act 2004.
f6: As amended by section 42 of the Traffic Management Act 2004.