Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act 1878

27 To whom minerals under disturnpiked roads to belong

Notwithstanding anything contained in section sixty-eight of the [11 & 12 Vict. c. 63.] Public Health Act, 1848, or in section one hundred and forty-nine of the [38 & 39 Vict. c. 55.] Public Health Act, 1875, all mines and minerals of any description whatsoever under any disturnpiked road or highway which has or shall become vested in an urban sanitary authority by virtue of the said sections, or either of them, shall belong to the person who would be entitled thereto in case such road or highway had not become so vested, and the person entitled to any such mine or minerals shall have the same powers of working and of getting the same or other minerals as if the road or highway had not beeome vested in the urban sanitary authority, but so nevertheless that in such working and getting no damage shall he done to the road or highway.

This section shall extend to the Isle of Wight and to South Wales, as defined by the said Act of the twenty-third and twenty-fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter sixty-eight, intituled " An Act for the better management and control of the " highways in South Wales."