Commentary on Sections Part 5: Highways and Roads Section 65: Duty of local highway authority to keep records of objects in highway
174.Section 65 enables the Secretary of State (in England), or the National Assembly for Wales (in Wales), to make regulations imposing a duty upon a local highway authority to make and keep a record of the location of any object of a description prescribed in the regulations which is placed by that authority in the street. The regulations may also make provision as to the form of the records, and supplementary information to be included in the record, and may require a authorities to make their records available for inspection.