SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8U.K.Minor and consequential amendments

Extent Information

E1Sch. 8 extends to England and Wales and to Scotland or Northern Ireland also if amended enactment so extends see s. 169

Part IVU.K. Amendments of other enactments

Fire Services Act 1947 (c.41)E+W+S

99[F1(1)The Fire Services Act 1947 is amended as follows.E+W+S

(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”.]

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 8 para. 99 wholly in force: Sch. 8 para. 99(1)(2) in force (S.) at 01.11.1991 see s. 170(1) and S.I. 1991/2286, art. 2(2), Sch. 2; Sch. 8 para. 99(1)(2) in force (E.W.) and Sch. 8 para. 99(3)(a) wholly in force at 01.11.1991 by S.I. 1991/2288, art. 3, Sch.; Sch. 8 para. 99 wholly in force at 1.1.1993 (E.W.) by S.I. 1992/2984, art. 2(2), Sch. 2 and (S.) by S.I. 1992/2990, art. 2(2), Sch. 2