SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8Minor and consequential amendments

Part IV Amendments of other enactments

Fire Services Act 1947 (c.41)

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F1(1)

The Fire Services Act 1947 is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 3(2) (supplementary powers of fire authorities; provisions as to exercise of power to place fire alarms in public places), for the words from the beginning to “maintaining the road;” or, in Scotland, “of the roads authority;” substitute—

“(2)

Before exercising the powers conferred by subsection (1)(c) above in relation to a highway for which they are not the highway authority or, in Scotland, a public road for which they are not the roads authority, a fire authority shall obtain the consent of the highway or roads authority;”.

(3)

In section 38(1) (interpretation)—

(a)

at the appropriate place insert—

““highway authority” has the same meaning as in the Highways Act 1980;”; and

(b)

in the definition of “road” for the words “Public Utilities Street Works Act 1950” substitute “Part IV of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991”.