(1)The following protective provisions of the Act of 1989 and the No. 1 Act of 1992 shall, so far as applicable and subject to the modifications specified in subsection (2) below and any other necessary modifications, apply for the purposes of this Act as they apply for the purposes of those Acts:—
in the Act of 1989—
section 36 (Notice to police);
section 37 (As to highways, traffic, etc.);
section 40 (For protection of public sewers);
section 41 (For protection of certain statutory undertakers);
section 42 (For protection of telecommunications operators);
and
section 43 (Crown rights);
in the No. 1 Act of 1992—
section 21 (For protection of National Rivers Authority).
(2)For the purposes of this section—
(a)in the said section 36 of the Act of 1989, after the word “police” there shall be inserted the words “and to the fire authority”; and
(b)in the said section 41 of the Act of 1989, for the reference to statutory undertakers as defined in the Act of 1989 there shall be substituted reference to statutory undertakers as defined in this Act.