255 Charge for whole duration of works

Part V Miscellaneous and Supplementary

Charges for street works on highway

255  Charge for whole duration of works

(1)     In the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, after section 74 insert—

“74A Charge determined by reference to duration of works

(1)     The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations requiring an undertaker executing street works in a maintainable highway to pay to the highway authority a charge determined, in the prescribed manner, by reference to the duration of the works.

(2)     The regulations shall not require charges to be paid to a local highway authority unless the Secretary of State has approved it for the purposes of the regulations by order made by statutory instrument.

(3)     The regulations may prescribe exemptions from the requirement to pay charges.

(4)     The regulations may prescribe different rates of charge according to—

(a)

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