Infrastructure Act 2015
What this means for your business
- Enforced by
- NSTA
- Applies to
- United Kingdom
- On this page
- 2 compliance obligations, 2 practical guides
What you must do
2 compliance obligations under this legislation.
Management duties 1
Remedy ORR notice and pay any imposed fine
If the Office of Rail and Road (ORR) tells you that your strategic highways company has breached the Road Investment Strategy or failed to follow its directions, you must act to fix the breach and, if required, pay a fine. The ORR will set out what you need to do and the deadline for compliance.
Reporting and filing 1
Provide information to the Office of Rail and Road when directed
If you run a strategic highways company, you must give the Office of Rail and Road any information it asks for, in the format and within the timescale it specifies. Failure to comply with a direction is a breach of the Act.
Practical guidance
Our guides explain how to comply with the requirements above.
Understand deep land rights and petroleum licensing for onshore energy
How deep level land access rights work for petroleum and geothermal exploration. Covers the 300m depth threshold, PEDL licensing, hydraulic …
Carry out works affecting the strategic road network
How to obtain National Highways approval before carrying out works on or adjacent to motorways and trunk roads in England. …
Sections and provisions
65 classified provisions from this legislation.
Duties 9
- s.2 Areas and highways in an appointment is
- s.3 Road Investment Strategy during the period
- s.5 General duties
- Schedule 6 Community electricity right regulations That percentage
- s.10 Monitor could not be compelled
- s.11 Monitor: compliance and fines as
- s.12 Monitor: general duties
- s.14 Periodic reports by the Secretary of State
- s.49 Advice on likely impact of onshore petroleum on the carbon budget
Powers 21
- s.1 Appointment of strategic highways companies
- Schedule 4 Mayoral development orders
- s.4 Route strategies
- s.6 Directions and guidance
- s.7 Delegation of functions
- s.9 Watchdog
- s.13 Monitor: guidance
- s.15 Transfer schemes
- s.16 Tax consequences of transfers
- s.17 Financial assistance
- s.18 Transfer of additional functions
- s.19 Consequential and transitional provision etc
- s.21 Cycling and Walking Investment Strategies
- s.28 Changes to, and revocation of, development consent orders
- s.29 Deemed discharge of planning conditions
- s.38 The community electricity right
- s.45 Payment scheme
- s.46 Notice scheme
- s.48 Interpretation
- s.50 Onshore hydraulic fracturing: safeguards
- ... and 1 more powers
Definitions 6
- Schedule 7 The licensing levy
- s.20 Interpretation of Part 1
- s.30 Mayoral development orders
- s.41 Maximising economic recovery of UK petroleum reporting period security and resilience function upstream petroleum infrastructure
- s.44 Further provision about the right of use
- s.53 Consequential provision