SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 25 Minor and Consequential Amendments
Adaptation of enactments relating to statutory undertakers etc.
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Each of the following, that is to say—
a
F1the Environment Agency;
F11aa
the Natural Resources Body for Wales;
b
every water undertaker; and
c
every sewerage undertaker,
shall be deemed to be statutory undertakers, and its undertaking a statutory undertaking, for the purposes of the enactments specified in sub-paragraph (2) below.
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The enactments mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above are—
i
the M1Public Health Act 1925;
ii
the M2Public Health Act 1936;
iii
section 4 of the M3Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948;
iv
the National Parks and Access to the M4Countryside Act 1949;
v
sections 20 and 30 of the M5Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951;
vi
the M6Landlord and Tenant Act 1954;
vii
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viii
the M7Opencast Coal Act 1958;
ix
section 17(10) of the M8Public Health Act 1961;
x
the M9Pipe-lines Act 1962;
xi
Schedule 3 to the M10Harbours Act 1964;
xii
Schedule 6 to the M11Gas Act 1965;
xiii
section 40 of the M12Forestry Act 1967;
xiv
section 2 of the M13Countryside Act 1968, in so far as references in that section to a public body are to be construed as references to a statutory undertaker, and sections 13 and 16 of, and Schedule 2 to, that Act;
xv
section 5 of the M14Development of Tourism Act 1969;
xvi
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xix
section 73 of the M16Control of Pollution Act 1974;
xx
the M17Welsh Development Agency Act 1975;
xxi
Part I of the M18Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976;
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xxiii
the M19Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979;
xxv
the M21Highways Act 1980;
xxvi
subject to sub-paragraph (5) below, the M22New Towns Act 1981;
xxvii
the M23Acquisition of Land Act 1981;
xxviii
the M24Civil Aviation Act 1982;
xxix
section 30 of the M25Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982;
xxx
section 2(2)(c) of the M26Cycle Tracks Act 1984;
xxxi
the M27Building Act 1984;
xxxii
Part IX and section 611 of the M28Housing Act 1985.
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The references in section 39 of the New Towns Act 1981 (power of development corporation to transfer undertakings) to statutory undertakers do not include references to any water undertaker or sewerage undertaker and, accordingly, references in that section to a statutory undertaking do not include references to the statutory undertaking of such an undertaker.
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7
A water undertaker or sewerage undertaker shall be deemed to be statutory undertakers for the purposes of section 9(3) of the M31Inner Urban Areas Act 1978 (loans for site preparation).
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A water undertaker or sewerage undertaker shall be deemed to be public utility undertakers for the purposes of the Highways Act 1980 F8. . .
9
In the enactments specified in sub-paragraph (10) below, “the appropriate Minister”, in relation to statutory undertakers, means—
a
b
in the case of a water undertaker or sewerage undertaker, the Secretary of State.
10
The enactments mentioned in sub-paragraph (9) above are—
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References to a local authority in the following enactments . . . F9 shall not include references to F7the Environment AgencyF15or the Natural Resources Body for Wales , namely—
i
the M39Opencast Coal Act 1958;
ii
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iii
Part I of Schedule 6 to the Highways Act 1980;
iv
the New Towns Act 1981;
v
the Acquisition of Land Act 1981.