Regulation 5 ExceptionsI1
England and Wales
The duty in section 79(1) of the Act to keep a record of the location of every item of apparatus will not apply:-
where compliance would lead to the disclosure of the following types of restricted information:
information certified by or with the authority of the Secretary of State as being restricted information in the interest of national security;
information certified by or with the authorisation of an undertaker as being restricted information in accordance with the commercial interests of the undertaker;
to any apparatus placed by an undertaker in the street within its existing apparatus where the location of the existing apparatus has already been recorded in a form prescribed by regulation 3;
to any apparatus placed in the street prior to the date on which these Regulations came into force;
to any apparatus belonging to an undertaker which is discovered by him in the street during the course of emergency works or urgent works carried out by him;
to any apparatus not installed underground; and
to service pipes and lines.