The Road Works (Inspection Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2003
| Jurisdiction | Scotland |
| Citation | SSI 2003/415 |
| Year | 2003 |
SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2003 No. 415
ROADS AND BRIDGES
The Road Works (Inspection Fees) (Scotland) Regulations
2003
Made 8th September 2003
Laid before the Scottish Parliament 9th September 2003
Coming into force 1st October 2003
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 134 and 163(1) of the New
Roads and Street Works Act 1991(a) and of all other powers enablin g them in that behal f, hereby
make the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and extent
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Road Works (Inspec tion Fees) (Scotland)
Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st October 2003.
(2) These Regulations extend to Scotland only.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations–
“the Act” means the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991;
“service pipe” and “service line” have the same mea ning as in paragraph 7(3) of Schedule 6
to the Act;
“statutory undertaker” means an undertaker who is entitled to carry out road works by virtue
of a statutory right;
“works” means road works involving the excavation or reinstatement of any part of a road;
“year” means a year starting on 1st April and ending on 31st March.
Inspection fees
3.—(1) An undertaker exec uting road works shall pay to the road works authority a f ee of
£20.00 for each chargeable inspection of works carried out by the road works authority.
(2) For the purposes of this regulation, a chargeable inspection of works is–
(a) if the inspection is of works carried out by an undertaker who holds a permission under
section 109 of the Act and who se number of reckonable units of inspection in the year in
which the inspection is made is le ss than 100, every inspection of all or any phase of
those works subject to a maximum of 30 inspections;
(b) if the inspection is of works carried out by an undertaker who holds a permission under
section 109 of the Act and who se number of reckonable units of inspection in the year in
which the inspection is made is 100 or more, an inspection at rand om of not more than
10.5 per cent of each phase of works and not more than 30 per cent of that total number
of reckonable units;
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(a) 1991 c.22. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of
the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).
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