New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 (c. 22)

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You can keep using your old style card until it expires. However, if you add a new certificate before the card expires, a new style card will be issued to you showing the new certificate together with any unexpired certificates from your previous card. The unexpired certificates will be converted to their new equivalents while retaining their original expiry dates. Your new style street works card will no longer have an expiry date. Every new certificate will last for 5 years so each one will have its own expiry date. This will happen automatically when your old style card expires - there is no need for you to convert to the new style by a certain date. However, if you add a new certificate to your old style card, the replacement card will be to the new style. It follows that an English operative will need to hold LA, O1 and O2 to be technically equivalent to holding Excavation in the highway in Wales/Northern Ireland or Excavation in the road in Scotland.

Trunk Road Street Gazetteer (TRSG). This is the Highways Agency’s own gazetteer of the strategic road network. You will be able to renew any certificate at any point in its lifetime. Training is not compulsory when renewing but assessment centres can provide it if you want it. Table 1: operative certificate equivalents for England Certificates below(1) issued in Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland before 4/9/17(2) and England before 6/4/17 candidates - you can be qualified as an operative, a supervisor, or both. A supervisor qualification does not mean you are qualified to work as an operative. However, if you hold operative and supervisor qualifications, you Only applies to certificates that have been obtained or renewed by undertaking assessment or reassessment.

there is no requirement to hold any particular combination of (non-key) certificates - you can tailor these certificates to the work you actually do Street works certificates continue to be technically equivalent throughout the UK. The only condition is that any non-English certificate over 5 years old has to have been renewed by reassessment (or assessment). If, after 6 April 2017, you have certificate that was renewed by simply re-registering it, it will not be valid in England. However, if you renew re-registered certificates by undergoing assessment, you will be qualified to work in England.

There is no requirement to hold any particular combination of non-key certificates. As long as you hold the key certificates, you can choose to hold as many or as few of the others as you like to suit the work that you do. For example, if you only wanted to be qualified to carry out reinstatement in hot-lay bituminous materials, you would need the two key operative certificates plus certificate O6. This principle applies similarly to supervisors. Highways England employs Managing Agent Contractors (MACs) and Asset Support Contracts (ASCs) to manage its roads, known as the strategic road network, in given geographical areas.

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if you renew your old style certificates on a like-for-like basis, you will be reassessed in the same subjects as before Highways England has also appointed a number of Design, Build, Finance and Operate ( DBFO) or Private Finance Initiative ( PFI) contracts for specific roads in MAC areas. When serving a notice under NRSWA on Highways England as authority for the strategic road network, you must use the TRSG version of the street reference. If a key certificate expires, you won’t lose the other certificates altogether - they will become valid again once the expired key certificate is renewed. LA - Location & avoidance of underground apparatus KEY CERTIFICATE O-series certificates, for operatives only:

When a certificate approaches expiry you will be able to renew it at any time in its last year without losing the unexpired portion. For example, if you renew a certificate with 10 months life left in it, the renewed certificate will last for 5 years and 10 months from the date of renewal.LA and O1 are the only two key certificates for operatives. If you are an operative, you therefore need the following to be qualified to excavate or reinstate: For completeness, TRSG streets in any particular LHA area also appear in the LSG for that area. However, these streets may be named differently between the LSG and the TRSG - These MAC/ ASC/ DBFO/ PFI contractors have authority to exercise Highways England’s legal powers and obligation under the Highways Act 1980 and New Roads & Street Works Act ( NRSWA) 1991. Sections of Highways England’s roads fall within Local Highways Authority (LHA) areas, but the LHAs have no responsibility as a highway authority or street authority for the Highways England road network.

Certificates issued in Scotland after 4/9/17 will directly correlate with those issued in England. For example, certificate O2 in Scotland will be equivalent to certificate O2 in England. Table 2: supervisor certificate equivalents for England Certificates below(1) issued in Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland before 4/9/17(2) and England before 6/4/17The centre of your choice will assess you in theoretical knowledge and practical skills in your chosen subjects. You can ask for training before assessment if you want but training is not compulsory.