| Guvnor

Enforced by: Local Authority
Status: Amended (in force with amendments)
Penalty ceiling: Prosecution 1 of 5 obligations carry a fine up to £2,500. 4 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

Does it bind you?

Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.

Statutory Undertaker2 Any Person2

Plus 1 duty on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.

Other Acts binding the same actors

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Statutory Undertaker — also bound by 179 other Acts

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Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts

Human Medicines Regulations 2012 184 duties

Merchant Shipping Act 1995 144 duties

Insolvency (England and Wales) Rules 2016 104 duties

Communications Act 2003 92 duties

Road Traffic Act 1988 92 duties

What it requires

Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

s.006 Notices Regulated

Notify the highway authority when starting or finishing street worksStatutory Undertaker

s.012 Application of charges and keeping of accounts Regulated

Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator

Local Authority must account for and reinvest street work chargesLocal authority

s.013 Offence Prosecution

Fail to provide required notice for street worksAny Person

Fine up to £2,500

s.014 Form of notice Regulated

Use the standard form when issuing a noticeAny Person

s.015 Manner of service of notice Regulated

Use electronic communications to send street works noticesStatutory Undertaker

10 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Citation, commencement and application

s.002 Revocation

s.003 Interpretation

s.004 Transitional arrangements

s.005 Application of Regulations

s.007 Prescribed period

s.008 Duration of works

s.009 Prescribed charges

s.010 Estimates of duration of works

s.011 Further and revised estimates of duration of works

Duty extraction and severity labels are Guvnor’s analysis of the instrument, not the instrument itself. Always verify against the linked source text.

The Street Works (Charges for Unreasonably Prolonged Occupation of the Highway) (England) Regulations 2009

Does it bind you?

Other Acts binding the same actors

What it requires