(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 39 (For protection of British Waterways Board);
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 20 (As to underground works affecting highways);
section 21 (For protection of National Rivers Authority); and
section 22 (For protection of British Railways Board).
(2)For the purposes of this section—
(a)in the said section 36, after the word “police”, there shall be inserted the words “and to the fire authority”;
(b)in the said section 40 of the Act of 1989, paragraph (14) shall not apply to the construction of any authorised railway in land now forming part of, or adjoining, any existing railway of the railways board;
(c)in the said section 41 of the Act of 1989—
(i)for the reference to statutory undertakers as defined in the Act of 1989 there shall be substituted reference to statutory undertakers as defined in the No. 1 Act of 1993; and
(ii)paragraph (16) shall not apply to the construction of any authorised railway in land forming part of, or adjoining, any existing railway of the railways board; and
(d)in the said section 20 of the No. 1 Act of 1992, for the reference to section 37 of the Act of 1989 as applying for the purposes of the No. 1 Act of 1992, there shall be substituted reference to that provision as applying for the purposes of this Act.