Commentary on Sections Part 4 : Street Works Section 45: The street works register
113Section 45amends section 53 of the NRSWA which places a duty on street authorities to keep a register showing with respect to each street for which they are responsible such information as may be prescribed with respect to the street works, and such other descriptions of works as may be prescribed, executed or proposed to be executed in the street (an example of other works are local authority road maintenance works).
114.Subsection (2) amends section 53(1) so as to confer a power to make regulations to require the street authority to keep additional information on the register, including information about any of the following:
	apparatus placed or proposed to be placed in the street;
	builders' skips deposited or proposed to be deposited in the street;
	scaffolding or other structures, which are erected, or proposed to be erected in the street.
115.Section 53(4) and (5) of NRSWA provide that the Secretary of State can make arrangements for the duty of an individual street authority to keep a register for its area to be satisfied by the appointment of someone to keep one or more "central" registers. Subsection (3) inserts a new subsection (4A) into section 53 providing that a "central register" means a register covering two or more authority areas.
116.Subsection (4) inserts a new subsection 5(A), which enables the Secretary of State to require a street authority to share information on its register with a person appointed to keep a central register.