Commentary on Sections Schedule 2 Road Investment Strategy Section 8: Exercise of delegated functions
60.This section sets out further details as to the basis on which functions which are delegated under section 7 are exercised. Subsection (2) provides that where a delegated function under section 7 is exercised by a company, anything done by it or its employees in connection with the actual or purported exercise of the function is to be treated as having been done by the company subject to the exceptions set out in subsection (3). Subsection (4) provides that Schedule 15 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994, which imposes restrictions on the disclosure of information in respect of functions which are delegated under that Act, applies in respect of functions which are delegated under section 7.