Part V

Improvement of Highways

Safety provisions

Guard-rails etc. in private streets.
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1
Subject to the provisions of this section, in any street which is not a highway maintainable at the public expense and which consists of or comprises a carriageway a local authority may provide and maintain such pillars, rails or fences as they think necessary for the purpose of safeguarding persons using the street.
2
The power under subsection (1) above to provide any works includes power to alter or remove them.
3
Schedule 8 to this Act (consents before carrying out work in streets) applies to the powers conferred on local authorities by this section.
4
A local authority shall pay compensation to any person who sustains damage by reason of the execution by them of works under this section.
5
In this section “local authority” means any of the following, namely, the council of a district or London borough,. . . the Common Council and the Council of the Isles of Scilly but in relation to a street in Wales, means a Welsh council.
Words repealed by Local Government Act 1985 (c. 51, SIF 81:1), s. 102, Sch. 17
Words in s. 67(5) added (1.4.1996) by 1994 c. 19, s. 22(1), Sch. 7 Pt. I para.6 (with s. 54(7), Sch. 17 paras. 22(1), 23(2)); S.I. 1996/396, art. 3, Sch.1.
Pt. V (ss. 62-105) extended (13.2.1992) by Severn Bridges Act 1992 (c. 3), s. 32(2)(a)