Commentary on Sections Schedule 2 Road Investment Strategy Section 13: Monitor: guidance
70.Section 13 provides for guidance to be given to the ORR. Subsection (1) allows the Secretary of State to guide the ORR as to the way in which it is to carry out its monitoring activities under section 10. The Secretary of State and the Treasury, acting jointly, are required to give the ORR guidance on the circumstances in which fines should be imposed on a strategic highways company (subsection (2)). The ORR must have regard to guidance given to it under this section and the Secretary of State must publish the guidance in such form as he or she considers appropriate.