72(1)) The Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973 shall be amended in accordance with this paragraph.S
(2)Subject to sub-paragraph (4) below, in the sections referred to in sub-paragraph (3) below for references (whether in the singular or plural) to “highway authority” and “local highway authority” there shall be substituted respectively references to “road”, “roads authority” and “local roads authority”.
(3)The sections to which sub-paragraph (2) above refers are sections 1(3), (4), (6), (7), and (9), 9(1), (2), and (5), 13(1) and (3), 17(1) and (3), 18(9) and 26(1) and (2).
(4)In section 17(1) (interpretation of Part I) the definitions of “highway” and “highway authority” shall cease to have effect.
(5)In section 18(9), for the words “section 8 of the Development and Road Improvement funds Act 1909” there shall be substituted the words “section 3 of the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984”.
(6)Section 26(4)(a) shall cease to have effect.
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(9)In section 80 (general interpretation)—
(a)in subsection (1)—
(i)there shall be inserted in the appropriate places in alphabetical order the following definitions—
““carriageway” has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;
“local roads authority” has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;
“roads authority” has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;”; and
(ii) for the definition of “road” there shall be substituted the following definition—
““road” has the same meaning as in the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;”; and
(b)subsection (2) shall cease to have effect.
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 9 para. 72(7)(8) repealed (27.5.1997) by 1997 c. 11, ss. 3, 6(2), Sch. 1 Pt. I (with Sch. 3)