Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 21 E+W AMENDMENTS OF ENACTMENTS RELATING TO HIGHWAYS

PART II E+W OTHER ENACTMENTS

F1 96 E+W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 21 para. 96 repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1989 (c. 43), s. 1(1), Sch. 1 Pt. X

X1 97 E+W At the end of section 57(3) of the M1 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949 there shall be added the words “ or by the council of the district in which the notice is placed or maintained ”.

Editorial Information

X1 The text of Sch. 21 paras. 97, 98 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M1 1949 c. 97.

98 (1) In section 1(4)(b) of the M2 Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950 for the words “appropriate local authority” there shall be substituted the words “local highway authority”.

(2) In section 2(4)(b) of that Act, for the words “appropriate local authority” there shall be substituted the words “local highway authority”.

(3) In section 21 of that Act—

(a) in subsection (1)(a) for the words from “Minister” to “urban district”,

(b) in subsection (1)(b) for the words from “Minister” to “paragraph”, and

(c) in subsection (3) for the words “Minister or the council”,

there shall be substituted the words “highway authority”, and at the end of that section there shall be added the following subsection:—

“(4) In so far as any works carried out in a street by a district council by virtue of their powers under section 187(2) of the Local Government Act 1972 constitute a road alteration, the references in subsections (1)(a) and (3) of this section to the highway authority, and in the Table in Schedule 6 to this Act to the local highway authority, shall be construed, in relation to those works, as references to the district council.”

(4) In section 39(1) of that Act for the definition “highway authority” there shall be substituted the following definition:— “ “highway authority” and “local highway authority” have the same meanings as in the Highways Act 1959 ”.

(5) In Schedule 2 to that Act, in paragraphs I and 3 for the words “appropriate local authority” there shall be substituted the words “local highway authority”.

(6) In the Table at the end of Schedule 6 to that Act, in paragraph (iii), for the word “council” there shall be substituted the words “local highway authority”.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of Sch. 21 paras. 97, 98 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Marginal Citations

M2 1950 c. 39.

F2 99, 100. E+W . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 21 paras. 99, 100 repealed by Highways Act 1980 (c. 66, SIF 59), s. 343(3), Sch. 25