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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9PROTECTIVE PROVISIONS

PART 5PROTECTION FOR THE CANAL & RIVER TRUST

Powers requiring the Trust’s consent

55.—(1) The Council must not under the powers conferred by this Order acquire compulsorily any land of the Trust or any easement or other right over such land, or use any such land, unless such acquisition or use is with the consent of the Trust.

(2) The Council must not in the exercise of the powers conferred by this Order obstruct or interfere with pedestrian or vehicular access to the waterway unless such obstruction or interference with such access is with the consent of the Trust.

(3) The Council must not exercise the powers conferred by article 9(1) (temporary stopping up of streets) in relation to any way over land comprised in the waterway unless such exercise is with the consent of the Trust.

(4) Nothing in article 15 (temporary interference with waterways) authorises the Council—

(a)to discharge any water directly or indirectly into the waterway; or

(b)to carry out any works to, or make any opening in, or otherwise interfere with, the waterway (including its banks and bed),

except with the consent of the Trust and on terms that the Trust may reasonably require, and in accordance with plans approved by, and under the supervision (if given) of, the engineer.

(5) The Council must not exercise any power conferred by this Order in such a way as to interfere with the supply of water to or the drainage of water from the waterway unless such exercise is with the consent of the Trust.

(6) The Council must not exercise the powers conferred by article 14 (power to survey and investigate land) and the powers conferred by article 15, or section 11(3) of the 1965 Act (power of entry for surveying land), in relation to the waterway unless such exercise is with the consent of the Trust.

(7) The Council must not exercise the powers conferred by sections 271 or 272 of the 1990 Act, as applied by Schedule 8 (provisions relating to statutory undertakers etc.), so as to divert any right of access to the waterway, but such right of access may be diverted with the consent of the Trust.

(8) The consent of the Trust under sub-paragraphs (1) to (7) and the approval of plans under sub-paragraph (4) must not be unreasonably withheld or delayed but may be given subject to reasonable terms and conditions which in the case of article 13 (discharge of water) may include conditions—

(a)specifying the maximum volume of water which may be discharged in any period; and

(b)authorising the Trust on giving reasonable notice (except in an emergency, when the Trust may require immediate suspension) to the Council to require the Council to suspend the discharge of water or reduce the flow of water where this is necessary by reason of any operational or environmental requirement of the Trust.