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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/street-works-registers-notices-directions-and-designations-regulations-1992/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2985",
  "legislation_title": "The Street Works (Registers, Notices, Directions and Designations) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/street-works-registers-notices-directions-and-designations-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Notice of starting date of works",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the proviso in regulation 5(1) and paragraphs (2) and (4), for the purposes of section 55, an undertaker proposing to execute street works in a traffic- sensitive street, shall for each of the categories of work specified in column (1) of the table in this paragraph, give a period of notice in relation to that category not less than that shown in column (2) of the table.\nTABLE\nCategory of works\nNotice period\n(1)\n(2)\nUrgent works\n2 hours\nMinor works not involving breaking up the street and the replacement of poles, lamps, columns and signs, pole testing and similar works involving minimal breaking up the street\n3 days\nStandard works\n7 days\nMinor works involving breaking up the street\n7 days\nRemedial works by an undertaker to a reinstatement not causing danger to users of the street\n3 days\n(2) Subject to the proviso in regulation 5(1), in a case where urgent works to which this paragraph applies are to be carried out in a traffic-sensitive street, which are works of a kind of which notice is required under section 55, the undertaker shall give notice as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any event within 2 hours of beginning the works. This paragraph applies to works—\n(a) for the purpose of restoring a supply or service where the supply or service is to premises to which it has been agreed in advance between the undertaker and the street authority that this paragraph applies, and\n(b) where, without knowing or having reasonable grounds for believing in the existence of circumstances justifying the execution of emergency works, the undertaker fears that, in the circumstances, persons or property might be endangered unless the works are carried out immediately,\nand to such other works as cannot reasonably be severed from such works.\n(3) Subject to the proviso in regulation 5(1) and paragraph (4), for the purposes of section 55, an undertaker proposing to execute street works in a street which is not a traffic-sensitive street shall, for each of the categories of work specified in column (1) of the table in this paragraph, give a period of notice in relation to that category not less than that shown in column (2) of the table.\nTABLE\nCategory of works\nNotice period\n(1)\n(2)\nStandard works\n7 days\nUrgent works\nAs soon as reasonably practicable and in any event within 2 hours of the being begun\nProvided, however, that in relation to streets to which this paragraph applies no notice is required in the case of minor works or remedial works by an undertaker to a reinstatement not causing danger to users of the street.\n(4) (a) No notice pursuant to section 55 is required to be given by a statutory undertaker to any person to whom this paragraph applies, unless such person has requested such a notice.\n(b) This paragraph applies—\n(i) to any statutory undertaker having apparatus in the street which is likely to be affected by the works, and\n(ii) to any person who would otherwise be entitled to such notice solely by virtue of his having in the street part of a service pipe lying between the boundary of the street and the stopcock on such pipe in that street, or his having a drain in that street.\n(c) In this paragraph “drain”, “service pipe” and “stopcock” have the same meaning as in the Water Industry Act 1991.\n(5) For the purposes of section 55(7) the period at the end of which a notice shall cease to have effect in relation to any street works shall be the same as the period of notice specified for that category of works in the appropriate table in paragraph (1) or paragraph (3) as the case may be.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2985/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:11:00.283939+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}