Commentary on Sections Schedule 2 Road Investment Strategy Section 10: Monitor
64.Section 10 provides for the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) to monitor how a strategic highways company carries out its functions. Those activities may include investigating and publishing reports or giving advice on how the company has achieved its objectives under a Road Investment Strategy and the effect of directions and guidance given to it by the Secretary of State.
65.Subsection (3) provides powers for the ORR to direct a strategic highways company to provide information to enable it to carry out its monitoring duties.
66.Subsection (8) requires the Secretary of State to lay before Parliament any report published by the ORR under section 10.
67.Subsection (9) inserts a new section 15A into the Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 allowing the Secretary of State to make regulations to change the name of the ORR.