Construction of railway

Alteration of water and gas pipes, &c.
18
It shall be lawful for the company, for the purpose of constructing the railway, to raise, sink, or otherwise alter the position of any of the watercourses, water pipes, or gas pipes, belonging to any of the houses adjoining or near to the railway, and also the mains and other pipes laid down by any company or society who may furnish the inhabitants of such houses or places with water or gas, and also to remove all other obstructions to such construction, so as the same respectively be done with as little detriment and inconvenience to such company, society, or inhabitants as the circumstances will admit, and be done under the superintendence of the company to which such water pipes or gas pipes belong, and of the several commissioners or trustees or persons having control of the . . . sewers, roads . . . and other public . . . places within the parish or district where such mains, pipes, or obstructions shall be situate, or of their surveyor, if they or he think fit to attend, after receiving not less than forty-eight hours notice for that purpose.
S. 18 incorporated (21.5.1992) by S.I. 1992/1267, art. 4(1)
S. 18 excluded (24.3.1994) by 1994 c. iii, s. 1, Sch. Pt. I para. 3(2)(b)
Words repealed by Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 54, SIF 108), s. 156(3), Sch. 11
S. 18 incorporated (28.12.2012) by The Banchory and Crathes Light Railway Order 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/345), arts. 1, 5(1)