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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2985",
  "legislation_title": "The Street Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) Regulations 1992",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nRegulation 2 includes definitions of “major projects”, “minor works”, “standard works” and “urgent works”.\nRegulation 3 prescribes the information with respect to street works which is to be held in the register a street authority is required to keep pursuant to section 53(1) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (“the Act”), together with information about certain categories of streets, other works, notices, licences, apparatus and reinstatements which is also to be held in the register. Provision is made for information certified by the Secretary of State in the interests of national security and for information which is commercially sensitive to an undertaker to be restricted for the purposes of section 53(3) of the Act (regulation 3(4)).\nRegulation 4 and Schedule 2 prescribe the form of notice to be given for the purposes of sections 54, 55 and 57 of the Act (advance notice of certain works, notice of starting date of works and notice of emergency works). Regulation 5 prescribes the manner in which service of notices under the Act or the Regulations is to be effected. Regulation 6 prescribes the instances in which an advance notice of works (section 54 of the Act) is required and provides that the period of such notice shall be one month. Regulation 7 prescribes the period of notice of starting date of street works (required to be given under section 55 of the Act) for urgent and standard works and, in the case of traffic-sensitive streets, for urgent, standard, minor and remedial works.\nRegulation 8 sets out the procedure to be followed where a street authority gives a direction under section 56(1) of the Act as to the timing of street works. Regulation 9 defines “substantial road works” for the purposes of section 58(1) of the Act, prescribes the manner in which a notice under this section shall be published and prescribes exceptions (additional to those set out in section 58(5) of the Act) to the restriction on the execution of street works for a period of 12 months following substantial road works imposed by section 58(1).\nRegulation 10 exempts street managers (the street authority for a street which is a non-maintainable highway) from the requirement to keep a register, provides that the local highway authority shall be the street authority for such a street for the purposes of keeping the register and receiving information from an undertaker as to the location and description of apparatus he has found (section 80(2) of the Act) and provides that section 61 of the Act (provision as to protected streets) shall not apply to a street which is a non- maintainable highway where consent to breaking up or opening is required under another enactment.\nRegulations 11(1), 12(1) and 13(1) prescribe the criteria which a street authority shall use when designating a street as a protected street pursuant to section 61 of the Act, as a street having special engineering difficulties pursuant to section 63 or (except where a designation is by agreement between the street authority and the majority of the relevant undertakers) as traffic-sensitive pursuant to section 64.\nRegulations 11(3), 12(3) and 13(3) set out the information which a street authority shall make available when designating a street as a protected street, as having special engineering difficulties or as traffic-sensitive.\nRegulation 11(2) and Part I of Schedule 1 prescribe the procedure for designating protected streets. Provision is made for the publication of a notice, its service upon specified bodies and persons and for the holding of a public inquiry before a designation is made if there are objections.\nRegulations 12(2), 13(2) and Part II of Schedule 1 prescribe the procedure for designating streets as having special engineering difficulties or as traffic-sensitive. Provision is made for the giving of a notice of the proposal to specified bodies and persons and for the consideration of objections before a designation is made.\nRegulations 11(2), 12(2) and 13(2) and Part III of Schedule 1 make provision for the withdrawal by the street authority of a designation of a street as a protected street, as having special engineering difficulties or as traffic-sensitive.",
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  "version": "current",
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