Commentary on Sections Part 5: Highways and Roads Section 68: Scaffolding, building materials and excavations: charge for occupation of the highway for unreasonable period
189.Section 169 of the Highways Act 1980 provides for the control of the erection of scaffolding or similar structures over the highway.
190.Section 171 provides for the control of the placing of builders' material (e.g. bricks) on the highway or the making of temporary excavations in the street.
191.Schedule 8 to the NRSWA amended the Highways Act 1980 to insert section 171A of the Highways Act 1980. Section 171A has not been brought into force. Section 171A makes provision for similar arrangements to be made in respect of the placing of scaffolding, building materials etc. as are made in respect of street works under section 74 of the NRSWA (before section 74 was amended by the Transport Act 2000).
192.Section 68 makes the equivalent substitutions to section 171A of the Highways Act 1980, as section 66 of this Act makes to section 140A of the Highways Act 1980.