Commentary on Sections Schedule 2 Road Investment Strategy Section 5: General duties of a strategic highways company
57.Section 5 contains high level general duties which a strategic highways company must observe when exercising its functions. Subsection (1) provides that the company must co-operate so far as reasonably practical with other bodies which exercise functions which relate to highways or planning. Subsection (2) provides that the company must have regard to the effects which exercising its functions may have on the environment and road safety.