Clause 53 - Power of street authority to
Traffic Management Bill
4:45 pm
Mr Tony McNulty (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Harrow East, Labour)
Amendment No. 203 is totally unnecessary. New section 73A (3) already provides for regulations to limit the extent of resurfacing, and authorities will be constrained by regulations as to what they can require of undertakers.
Regarding the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Bassetlaw, we have agreed that the authorities and utilities should be consulted separately and jointly so that what he suggests does not prevail.
Putting in the ''reasonably'' asked for in amendment No. 203 would add absolutely nothing to this clause. It is already alluded to in section 73A (3) and will be dealt with in substance in regulations.