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1.—(1) The following provisions of this Part of this Schedule shall apply for the protection of each drainage authority unless otherwise agreed between the undertaker and the drainage authority concerned.
(2) In this Part of this Schedule—
“construction” includes execution, placing, altering, replacing, relaying and removal and “construct” and “constructed” are to be construed accordingly;
“drainage authority” means the Environment Agency or, within the area of the Swavesey Internal Drainage Board or the Old West Internal Drainage Board, that board except in relation to a drainage work forming part of a main river as defined in the Water Resources Act 1991;
“drainage work” means any watercourse and includes any land which is expected to provide flood storage capacity for any watercourse and any bank, wall, embankment or other structure, or any appliance, constructed or used for land drainage or flood defence;
“fishery” means any waters containing fish and fish in, or migrating to or from such waters and the spawn, habitat or food of such fish;
“plans” includes sections, drawings, specifications and method statements;
“specified work” means so much of any work or operation authorised by this Order as is in, on, under, over or within 9 metres of a watercourse or is otherwise likely to affect any drainage work or the volumetric flow of water in or flowing to or from any drainage work; and
“watercourse” includes all rivers, streams, ditches, drains, culverts, dykes, sluices, sewers and passages through which water flows (whether or not the flow is intermittent) except a public sewer.
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