Appendix A - Glossary
Apparatus
Includes any structure for the lodging therein of apparatus or for gaining access to apparatus (Section 164).
Area RAUC
The regional sub-group of the RAUC(S) meeting.
Associated Street Data (ASD)
Additional data held in the National Street Gazetteer (NSG) relating to maintaining authority, special designations and reinstatement categories.
Base Gazetteer
The NSG data at its most basic level. Made up of a list of streets and co-ordinates plotting the route of the street.
Bridge
Includes so much of any road as gives access to the bridge and any embankment, retaining wall or other work or substance supporting or protecting that part of the road (Section 147).
Bridge Authority
The authority, body or person in whom a bridge is vested (Section 147).
Carriageway
Public right of passage by vehicle, other than a right by pedal cycle.
Commissioner
The Scottish Road Works Commissioner.
Contact Details
Details of the contacts with knowledge of the works. Should consist as a minimum of the name and telephone number of both the notice originator and the principal contractor on site.
Costs (for resurfacing)
Costs, direct costs and overhead costs should be based on The Road Works (Recovery of Costs) (Scotland) Regulations 2003.
Culvert
A structure in the form of a large pipe or pipes, box or enclosed channel generally used for conveying water under a road.
Cycle Track
Public right of passage by pedal cycle only, or by pedal cycle and foot only.
Day
A day is a working day.
A working day is defined as (regulation 2(1) of SI 2008 No. 88), a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or the public holidays for Christmas Day, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day and the day following New Year’s Day. (This differs from Section 157(2) of NRSWA but has been agreed by the Scottish road works community and the Commissioner as better reflecting working practice in Scotland).
A notice given after 16:30 on a working day is to be treated as given on the next working day. In reckoning any period which is expressed to be a period from or before a given date, that date must be excluded (based upon Section 157(1) of NRSWA).
Emergency Works
As defined in Table 6.1 of this Code of Practice.
End of Working Day for notice purposes
16:30 (Section 157(2) of NRSWA).
Footpath
Public right of passage by foot only where it is not associated with a carriageway.
Footway
Public right of passage by foot only where it is associated with a carriageway.
Frontager
Means the owner of any land fronting or abutting a road or a proposed road.
HAUC(UK)
Highways Authority and Utilities Committee (UK)
Interface
Where the carriageway surface meets:
- the kerb or the edge of the carriageway for unkerbed roads.
- the carriageway of an adjoining street at a junction.
- another section of machine laid surface and a joint exists where the two machine laid surfaces meet.
Interim Reinstatement
The orderly placement and proper compaction of reinstatement layers to finished surface level, including any temporary materials.
Local RAUC
The local regional sub-group of the Area RAUC meeting.
Maintainable Road
A road which a roads authority has a duty to maintain.
Major Works
As defined in Table 5.1 of this Code of Practice.
Minor Works
As defined in Table 5.1 of this Code of Practice.
Month
A calendar month (regulation 2(1) of SI 2008 No. 88).
National Street Gazetteer (NSG)
The list maintained by each respective roads authority of the roads within its area.
Notice
A set of specified information which should be entered in the SRWR by a specified point in time.
NRSWA/NRSWA 1991
The New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, as amended by the Transport (Scotland) Act 2005 and the Transport (Scotland) Act 2019.
Permanent Reinstatement
The orderly placement and proper compaction of reinstatement layers up to and including the finished surface level.
R(S)A/R(S)A 98
Roads (Scotland) Act 1984
RAUC/RAUC(S
Road Authorities and Utilities Committee (Scotland).
Relevant Authority
In relation to any road works’, is the roads authority and also where the works include breaking up or opening in the road of a sewer vested in the local authority, that local authority;
- Where the road is carried or crossed by a bridge vested in a transport authority, or crosses or is crossed by any other property held or used for the purposes of a transport authority, that authority; and
- Where in any other case the road not being a public road is carried or crossed by a bridge, the bridge authority (Section 108).
Resurfacing
A new surface material laid by machine which requires compaction and has the ability to reprofile the surface. It is considered that neither surface dressing nor slurry sealing has the ability to reprofile the surface.
Road
Any way (other than a waterway) over which there is a public right of passage (by whatever means) and includes the road's verge, and any bridge (whether permanent or temporary) over which, or tunnel through which, the road passes; and any reference to a road includes a part thereof.
Road Manager
In relation to a road which is not a public road, the authority, body or person liable to the public to maintain or repair the road, or if there is none, any authority, body or person having the management or control of the road (NRSWA Section 108).
Road Works
Works for any purposes other than roads purposes, being works of any of the following kinds executed in a road pursuance of a statutory right or with permission granted under NRSWA Section 109:
- placing apparatus or
- inspecting, maintaining, adjusting, repairing, altering or renewing apparatus, changing the position of apparatus or removing it or works required for or incidental to any such works (including in particular, breaking up or opening the road, or any sewer, drain or tunnel under it, or tunnelling or boring under the road).
Road Works Authority
If the road is a public road, it is the roads authority and if it is not a public road, the road manager.
Road Works Permission
Permission granted by a roads authority to a person to carry out road works.
Roads Authority
In relation to a road or proposed road, the council within whose area the road is; and in relation to a trunk road the Scottish Ministers. As described in R(S)A Section 151.
Safety Code
The Safety at Street Works and Road Works – A Code of Practice. Commonly referred to as the Safety Code.
SCOTS
The Scottish Collaboration of Transportation Specialists.
Site
In relation to notices, this means individual elements of works which can be completed at different times and which require the submission of individual reinstatement details notices.
This could be long trenches with sectional completion or a series of individual excavations within a single road works.
SJUG
The Scottish Joint Utilities Group.
SLG
The Signing, Lighting and Guarding used to keep the site safe, as per the Safety Code.
Specialist non-skid surfacedressing
This is commonly referred to as anti-skid treatment, or specialist non-skid surface treatment, and should not be confused with standard surface dressing treatment.
SROR
The Specification for the Reinstatement of Openings in Roads.
SRWC
The Scottish Road Works Commissioner.
SRWR
The Scottish Road Works Register. The register of all road works and related events in Scotland.
Standard Works
As defined in Section 6.2 of this Code of Practice.
Start of Working Day
8am hours.
Traffic Authority
The roads authority for the road concerned (based upon Section 70 of Schedule 8 to NRSWA).
Traffic Sensitive Situation
A traffic sensitive road or that part of it which is designated traffic sensitive and in the case of a limited designation the dates or times to which the designation applies (based upon Section 123 of NRSWA).
Undertaker
The person in whom the relevant statutory right is exercisable or a person having permission under Section 109 of NRSWA (see Section 107(4) of NRSWA).
Unique Street Reference Number (USRN)
A unique reference number given to each street in the NSG.
Urgent Works
As defined in Table 5.1 of this Code of Practice
Utility or Utility Company
An undertaker by whom a statutory right to execute road works is exercised.
Working Day
See the definition of “Day” above for a description of a “Working Day”
Works Clear
The status of “works clear” provides a point where the promoter can declare that all reinstatements are complete, at least to an interim standard, and that all sites have been cleared of all SLG & materials.
Works Closed
The status of “works closed” provides a point where the promoter can declare that the works are now complete, an permanent standard, and that all sites have been cleared of all SLG & materials. The works can only be reopened if remedial works are required.
Works For Road Purposes
Works for the maintenance of a road:
- works for any purpose falling within the definition of "improvement" in Section 151 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984,
- the erection, maintenance, alteration or removal of traffic signs, or
- the construction of a crossing for vehicles across a footway or the strengthening or adaptation of a footway for use as a crossing for vehicles.
Works Promoter
The organisation promoting the work in the roads, i.e. the road works authority or the undertaker.
Year
A calendar year.