The Street Works (Charges for Occupation of the Highway) (England) Regulations 2001
Section 74A of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (inserted by the Transport Act 2000) enables regulations to be made requiring an undertaker executing street works in a maintainable highway to pay a charge. These Regulations provide for the charges to be payable to such local highway authorities as may be so approved. Under the regulations the charge is determined by reference to the duration of the works subject to a maximum of £1,000 a day for each set of notified works in a street. The Regulations also make provision for the giving of notices relating to works to which they apply, create an offence or failing without reasonable cause to give a prescribed notice and make provision for the application by approved local authorities of charges received and the keeping of accounts