The F1Secretary of State may under and in accordance with the Crown Lands Acts 1829 to 1894, convey to a bridge authority willing and able to accept such a conveyance any bridge under the management of the F1Secretary of State and any land required for the purpose of widening or improving any bridge, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions and upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the F1Secretary of State and the authority, anything in those Acts to the contrary notwithstanding.

For the purposes of this section the expression “bridge” includes the approaches to and abutments of a bridge, and the expression “bridge authority” means any local authority having the duty of the care and maintenance of bridges.