{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-roads-and-street-works-act-1991-commencement-no-3-order-1992/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-roads-and-street-works-act-1991-commencement-no-3-order-1992/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1686",
  "legislation_title": "The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (Commencement No. 3) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-roads-and-street-works-act-1991-commencement-no-3-order-1992",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nArticle 3 of this Order brings into force on 14th July 1992 the following provisions of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.\nSection 48 (streets, street works and undertakers);\nSection 49 (the street authority and other relevant authorities);\nSection 52 (emergency works);\nSection 53(4), (5) and (6) (arrangements and regulations by the Secretary of State for the street works register);\nSection 54 (advance notice of certain works);\nSection 56 (power to give directions as to timing of street works);\nSection 59(3) (duty of Secretary of State to issue or approve codes of practice relating to duty of street authority to co-ordinate works);\nSection 60(2) (duty of Secretary of State to issue or approve codes of practice relating to general duty of undertakers to co-operate);\nSection 62 (supplementary provisions as to designation of protected streets);\nSections 63 and 64 (streets with special engineering difficulties and traffic-sensitive streets);\nSection 65(3) (duty of Secretary of State to issue or approve codes of practice relating to safety measures);\nSection 67 (qualifications of supervisors and trained operatives);\nSection 70(4) (power of Secretary of State to prescribe longer period than that set out in the subsection for permanent reinstatement following interim reinstatement);\nSection 71 (power of Secretary of State to prescribe materials, standards of workmanship and performance and to issue or approve codes of practice relating to reinstatement);\nSection 75 (inspection fees);\nSection 81(3) and (4) (power of Secretary of State to make regulations concerning inspection and maintenance of apparatus);\nSection 84(2) (power of Secretary of State to issue or approve code of practice relating to measures necessary where apparatus affected by major works);\nSection 85 (power of Secretary of State to make regulations as to sharing of cost of such necessary measures);\nSections 86 and 87 (highway authorities, highways and related matters and prospectively maintainable highways);\nSections 97, 98 and 99 (service of notices and other documents, reckoning of periods and arbitration);\nSections 104, 105 and 106 (regulations, minor definitions and index of defined expressions);\nSection 167(4) and (5) (application to the Crown);\nSchedule 4 (streets with special engineering difficulties).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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