Highways Act 1980

[F1333 Saving for rights and liabilities as to interference with highways.E+W

(1)No provision of this Act relating to obstruction of or other interference with highways is to be taken to affect any right of a highway authority or other person under any enactment not contained in this Act, or under any rule of law, to remove an obstruction from a highway or otherwise abate a nuisance or other interference with the highway, or to affect the liability of any person under such an enactment or rule to proceedings (whether civil or criminal) in respect of any such obstruction or other interference.

(2)Nothing in section 134 or 135 above relating to disturbance of the surface of a highway in any manner is to be taken as affecting any right existing apart from this Act to disturb its surface in that manner.]

Textual Amendments

F1S. 333(2) inserted (the existing provision being renumbered as subsection (1)) as provided by Rights of Way Act 1990 (c. 24, SIF 59), s. 3