10.—(1) For the protection of the Environment Agency (in this article referred to as “the Agency”) the following provisions shall, unless otherwise agreed in writing between the Councils and the Agency, apply and have effect.
(2) Nothing in this Order or in any enactment incorporated with or applied by this Order shall prejudice or affect the operation of section 109 of the Water Resources Act 1991(1) or any byelaws made under that Act or the Land Drainage Act 1991(2) in relation to anything done under or in pursuance of this Order.
(3) Before carrying out any works involving the erection or raising of any obstruction to the flow of any watercourse or the construction, alteration or replacement of any culvert or any structure designed to contain or divert the flow of any watercourse in, under or through any land held for the purposes of or in connection with the light railway, the Councils shall furnish to the Agency proper and sufficient plans thereof for the approval of the Agency and shall not carry out the said works until the said plans have been approved in writing by the Agency.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (3), “plans” includes sections, drawings, specifications, calculations and descriptions.
(5) Any culvert or any structure designed to contain or divert the flow of any watercourse situated within any land held for the purposes of or in connection with the light railway, whether constructed under the powers of this Order or in existence prior to the making hereof, shall be maintained by the Councils in good repair and condition and free from obstruction.
(6) If any obstruction is erected or raised or any culvert is constructed, altered or replaced in contravention of this article, the Councils shall, upon receiving notice from the Agency, take such action as may be necessary to remedy the effect of the contravention to the Agency’s satisfaction and in default the Agency may itself take such action as may be necessary and recover the expenses reasonably incurred by it in doing so from the Councils as a debt due from them to the Agency.
(7) Any dispute or difference which may arise between the Agency and the Councils under this article shall be referred to and determined by a single arbitrator to be agreed between the parties or, failing such agreement, to be appointed by the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers on application of either party (after notice in writing to the other).
(8) The provisions of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 applied by this Order shall be subject to the provisions of this article.