This is the original version (as it was originally enacted).
1(1)Subject to sub-paragraph (2) below, the Secretary of State may raise, lower, divert, alter, remove or otherwise interfere with any of the following, that is to say—
(a)any pipe, tube, cable, wire or other apparatus intended or used for carrying water, gas or electricity or for telegraphic, postal or other purposes ;
(b)any sewer or drain or other similar works ; and
(c)any mooring;
in any case where it appears to him to be necessary or convenient to do so for the purposes of any of the works.
(2)The Secretary of State may not under sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (b) above remove from any land acquired for or in connection with the principal works any apparatus of a description falling within section 230(1)(b) of the [1971 c. 78.] Town and Country Planning Act 1971 (apparatus vested in or belonging to statutory undertakers for the purpose of carrying on their undertaking) as that paragraph applies by virtue of paragraph 8 of Schedule 1 to this Act in relation to any such land.
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