Commentary on Sections Part 2: Network Management by Local Traffic Authorities Sections 18 & 19: Guidance and power to require information
50.Sections 18 and 19 provide for the Secretary of State (in England), or the National Assembly for Wales (in Wales) to issue guidance to authorities about the techniques of network management or other matters relating to the exercise of their network management duties and to obtain information from authorities connected with the performance of those duties. The Secretary of State and National Assembly for Wales are identified in the provisions of Part 2 of the Act as "the appropriate national authority".