# The Street Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) Regulations 1992, Regulation 2: Interpretation


In these Regulations:—
a reference to a section is a reference to the appropriate section in the Act, a reference to a regulation is a reference to the appropriate regulation in these Regulations, a reference to a paragraph is a reference to the appropriate paragraph in the regulation in which the reference appears and a reference to a Schedule is a reference to one of the Schedules to these Regulations;
“the Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991;
“day” means a working day;
“major projects” means projects which have been identified specifically in the annual operating programme of the undertaker or highway authority, or which, though not specifically identified in such programme, would normally be planned at least six months in advance of works commencing;
“minor works” means works (not being emergency works or urgent works) whether in the footway, verge or carriageway, which are of a planned duration of not more than 3 days, do not form part of a rolling programme and do not involve at any one time more than 30 metres of works or leave less than 3 metres width of carriageway available for traffic or less than 2.5 metres width of carriageway where the traffic is expected to consist only of motor cars and light locomotives within the meaning of section 185(1) of the Road Traffic Act 1988;
“month” means a calendar month;
“person responsible for securing registration” means, in relation to any information, the person responsible for conveying such information to the street authority for registration in the street works register;
“statutory undertaker” means a person entitled by virtue of a statutory right to carry out street works;
“standard works” means all works which are not emergency works, urgent works or minor works;
“the street works register” means a register required to be kept by virtue of section 53;
“traffic-sensitive street” means a street designated by a street authority as traffic- sensitive pursuant to section 64 and in a case where a limited designation is made pursuant to section 64(3) any reference to works in a traffic-sensitive street shall be construed as a reference to works to be executed at the times and dates specified in such a designation;
“urgent works” means street works (not being emergency works) whose execution at the time they are executed is required (or which the person responsible for the works believes on reasonable grounds to be required)—
to prevent or put an end to an unplanned interruption of any supply or service provided by the undertaker,
to avoid substantial loss to the undertaker in relation to an existing service, or
to reconnect supplies or services where the undertaker would be under a civil or criminal liability if the reconnection is delayed until after the expiration of the appropriate notice period,
and includes works which cannot reasonably be severed from such works.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2985/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/street-works-registers-notices-directions-and-designations-regulations-1992/regulation-2
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