1References to a highway authority in sections one to twelve of the Restriction of Ribbon Development Act, 1935, shall be construed in relation to trunk roads as references to the authority by whom the functions of the highway authority under section one and section two of the said Act are exercisable (hereafter in this Schedule referred to as " the authority ") :
Provided that in the proviso to subsection (1) of section nine thereof for the words " the highway authority " (where those words occur for the third time) there shall be substituted the words " the Minister or the authority " and for the words " the highway authority " (where those words occur for the fourth time) there shall be substituted the words " the Minister or the authority, as the case may be " ; and in subsection (3) of the said section nine references to a highway authority shall be construed as references to the Minister.