SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 15PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS
PART 6FOR THE PROTECTION OF LOCAL HIGHWAY AUTHORITIES
Stage 4 safety audit
schedule 15 paragraph 90 90.—(1) The undertaker must notify the local highway authority upon expiry of the maintenance period and invite the local highway authority to inspect the specified works and to reasonably determine whether or not a stage 4 safety audit is required.
(2) As soon as is reasonably practicable following the invitation to which sub-paragraph (1) refers (and in any event within 40 working days), the local highway authority must inspect the specified works and confirm in writing to the undertaker whether or not a stage 4 safety audit is required and the further remedial works to be undertaken (if any).
(3) If it is determined that a stage 4 safety audit is required which provides for further remedial works to be carried out, then within 40 working days of receipt of the stage 4 road safety audit the undertaker must provide the local highway authority with a programme of works for such further remedial works to be approved by the local highway authority.
(4) The undertaker must comply with and carry out in full to the local highway authority’s satisfaction all requirements identified by the local highway authority as a result of the inspection and where applicable the stage 4 safety audit and must at no cost whatsoever to the local highway authority reinstate and make good the defects including those which in the reasonable and proper opinion of the local highway authority must have arisen out of any defect in the design of the specified works or the use of defective workmanship or materials not in accordance with the specification and approved drawings during the construction of the specified works within the timeframes set out in the approved programme of works.
(5) The undertaker must thereafter notify the local highway authority that the specified works are ready for a further inspection.
(6) As soon as is reasonably practicable (and in any event within 40 working days) following the invitation to which sub-paragraph (5) refers, the local highway authority must further inspect the specified works.