Explanatory note

These Regulations make provision for the payment of a fee by an undertaker to a highway authority on the registration of specified information on a street works register kept by a highway authority. The Regulations further provide (regulation 4(2)) that no fee is payable where information to be registered on a street works register is transmitted to a highway authority in accordance with the Code of Practice for the Co-ordination of Street Works and Works for Road Purposes and Related Matters. The Code (reference ISBN 0 11 551162 8) is published by The Stationery Office (TSO) (formerly HMSO) and can be obtained fr-om HMSO bookshops. An appendix to that Code dealing with electronic transmission will be published on 26th March 1999 and can be obtained from HMSO bookshops at that time.