Regulation 3 Inspection fee

(1)

An undertaker^f1 must pay to the street authority^f2 a fee of £50.00 for each chargeable inspection of works carried out by the street authority.

(2)

In this regulation—

(a)

a “chargeable inspection of works” is an inspection at random of at least 5 per cent of works from each inspection category and not more than the applicable percentage of an undertaker’s total number of reckonable units of inspection in any year; and

(b)

the inspection categories are—

(i)

an inspection undertaken during the period when the works are being carried out, ending with the day on which interim or permanent reinstatement is completed;

(ii)

an inspection undertaken within the period of six months starting with the day on which interim or permanent reinstatement is completed; and

(iii)

an inspection undertaken within the period of three months immediately preceding the end of—

(aa)

in the case of excavations to a depth exceeding 1.5 metres to the top of the apparatus over a length of 5 metres or more, three years from completion of permanent reinstatement,

(bb)

in any other case, two years from the completion of permanent reinstatement.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: See section 48(4) and (5) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22) for the definition of “undertaker”.
f2: See section 49 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22) for the definition of “street authority”.