# Traffic Management Act 2004, Section 65: Duty of strategic highways company or local highway authority to keep records of objects in highway

Extent: E+W
Status: prospective

(1) The appropriate national authority may by regulations made by statutory instrument require a strategic highways company or a local highway authority to make and keep a record of the location of any object of a description specified in the regulations which has been placed by that company or that authority in a street.
(2) Regulations under this section may include provision—
(a) as to the form in which a record is to be made;
(b) as to supplementary information to be included in a record;
(c) requiring a record to be made available for inspection.
(3) The reference in subsection (1) to an object placed in a street includes an object placed under, over, across, along or upon a street.
(4) In this section—
“appropriate national authority” means—
(a)the Secretary of State, in relation to strategic highways companies or local highway authorities in England;
(b)the National Assembly for Wales, in relation to local highway authorities in Wales;
“ local highway authority ” has the same meaning as in the 1980 Act;
“ strategic highways company ” means a company for the time being appointed under Part 1 of the Infrastructure Act 2015;
“street” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991.
(5) A statutory instrument containing regulations under this section made by the Secretary of State is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/18/section/65 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/traffic-management-act-2004/section-65
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