81.This section creates an offence of interfering with works and equipment used to take possession of land or close or divert roads, rights of way, etc, unless there is a reasonable excuse for doing so.
82.This section also provides that authorisations under sections 29 and 30 may authorise the exercise of all the powers, or only some of them, and that authorisations may relate to a person or to a group of people.
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