SCHEDULES

P1SCHEDULE 23 Transitional Provisions

Annotations:
Subordinate Legislation Made
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Sch. 23: for earlier exercises of power under Sch. 23, see Index to Government Orders

Private Street Works Code

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1

Sub-paragraph (2) below has effect where—

a

before 1st January 1960 street works were executed under any of the relevant street works enactments with respect to part only of a private street, being a part consisting of the whole or part of a footway on one side only of the street, and those works were executed only by, or at the expense only of, the owners or occupiers of the premises fronting the footway or part of the footway, as the case may be; and

b

the street works authority resolve under section 205(1) of this Act to execute street works with respect to any part of the street constituting or comprising the whole or a part of the footway on the side of the street other than that in which street works were executed as mentioned in paragraph (a) above.

In this paragraph “the relevant street works enactments” means section 150 of the M1Public Health Act 1875, the M2Private Street Works Act 1892 and any local Act making provision corresponding to the provisions of that section or of the said Act of 1892.

2

In the circumstances mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above, the expenses incurred by the authority in executing the works mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(b) above with respect to the footway or part of the footway there mentioned shall (notwithstanding anything in section 205(1) or (2) of this Act but subject to the other provisions of the private street works code) be apportioned only between the premises fronting that footway or part, as the case may be, and references in Part XI of this Act to the premises liable to be charged with the expenses of street works under the private street works code are to be construed in accordance with this sub-paragraph.

3

References in this paragraph to a footway include references to any roadside waste, and to any channel by the side of a footway.