Aire and Calder Navigation Act 1992

7 Subsidiary powers

(1) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act, the Corporation may within the limits of deviation and within the lines marked on the deposited plans “Limit of land to be acquired”, in connection with the works and for the purposes thereof—

(a) make junctions and communications between any of the works and any waterways, rivers, streams and watercourses and any existing streets, roads, bridleways, ways, bridges, towing paths and footpaths;

(b) stop up, remove, alter or otherwise interfere with means of access between any premises and any highway which is diverted or stopped up or altered under this Act;

(c) make, provide, alter and maintain all necessary and convenient walls, banks, embankments, locks, piling, cofferdams, borrow pits, settling ponds, fences, facilities for watering cattle and other animals, culverts, drains, conduits, dykes, intakes, outfalls, spillways, syphons, watercourses, cuttings, aqueducts, tunnels, fish passes, weirs, sluices, valves, wharves, moorings and mooring areas, linings, mattresses, pitching, roads, bridges, towpaths, bridleways and footpaths and all such mains, pipes, cables, wires, pumps, machinery and works and appliances as may be required;

(d) raise, widen, lengthen, alter, reconstruct, replace or remove the bridges over the navigation or any watercourse and the approaches to such bridges and strengthen, underpin, widen and deepen the piers, arches and other supports, and the foundations of such bridges without acquiring the said bridges or any interest therein;

(e) carry out works to any towpath forming part of the navigation;

(f) stop up and discontinue so much of the watercourses shown on the deposited plans as will be rendered unnecessary by reason of the execution of the works and remove or infill any locks or other structures associated therewith;

(g) execute any works or abstract water for the protection of any adjoining lands, buildings or structures;

(h) temporarily or permanently use, strengthen, widen, improve, remove, alter, divert, stop up or otherwise interfere with any drain, sewer, outfall, intake, watercourse or other channel, providing where possible a proper substitute before interrupting the flow of sewage in any drain or sewer or water in any watercourse or other channel;

(i) temporarily or permanently use, strengthen, remove, alter, divert, stop up or otherwise interfere with telegraphic, telephonic, water, gas, petroleum and other pipes, lines, wires, works and apparatus;

(j) fell, lop or cut and remove any fence or hedge and any tree, bush, shrub or other vegetation;

(k) raise, lower or otherwise alter the level of any land and remove anything therefrom; and

(l) dispose of spoil or other material excavated in the execution of the works.

(2) In the exercise of the powers conferred by this section the Corporation shall cause as little detriment and inconvenience to any person as the circumstances permit and shall pay compensation for any damage done in the exercise of such powers.

(3) Any question of disputed compensation payable under the provisions of this section shall be determined by the tribunal.