PART 1

Preliminary

Application of the 1991 Act4

1

The provisions of the 1991 Act mentioned in paragraph (2) which, together with other provisions of that Act, apply in relation to the execution of street works and any regulations made or code of practice issued or approved under those provisions apply (with the necessary modifications) in relation to any stopping up, alteration or diversion of a street of a temporary nature by the Council under the powers conferred by article 9 (temporary stopping up of streets) whether or not the stopping up, alteration or diversion constitutes street works within the meaning of that Act.

2

The provisions of the 1991 Act referred to in paragraph (1) are—

  • section 54 (advance notice of certain works), subject to paragraph (3);

  • section 55 (notice of starting date of works), subject to paragraph (3);

  • section 57 (notice of emergency works);

  • section 59 (general duty of street authority to co-ordinate works);

  • section 60 (general duty of undertakers to co-operate);

  • section 68 (facilities to be afforded to street authority);

  • section 69 (works likely to affect other apparatus in the street);

  • section 76 (liability for cost of temporary traffic regulation);

  • section 77 (liability for cost of use of alternative route); and

all such other provisions as apply for the purposes of the provisions mentioned above.

3

Sections 54 and 55 of the 1991 Act as applied by paragraph (1) have effect as if references in section 57 of that Act to emergency works were a reference to a stopping up, alteration or diversion (as the case may be) required in a case of emergency.

4

Nothing in article 11 (construction and maintenance of new or altered streets)—

a

affects the operation of section 87 of the 1991 Act (prospectively maintainable highways); and the Council is not by reason of any duty under that article to maintain a street to be taken to be a street authority in relation to that street for the purposes of Part 3 of that Act; or

b

has effect in relation to street works with regard to which the provisions of Part 3 of the 1991 Act apply.