Land Drainage Act 1991

Undertakings protected by ScheduleE+W

1(1)The following are the undertakings protected by this Schedule, that is to say—

(a)the undertakings of the NRA, the Civil Aviation Authority, [F1the Coal Authority] and the Post Office;

(b)the undertaking of any water undertaker or sewerage undertaker;

(c)any undertaking consisting in the running of a telecommunications code system, within the meaning of Schedule 4 to the M1Telecommunications Act 1984;

(d)any airport to which Part V of the M2Airports Act 1986 applies;

(e)the undertaking of any public gas supplier within the meaning of Part I of the M3Gas Act 1986;

(f)the undertaking of any person authorised by a licence under Part I of the M4Electricity Act 1989 to generate, transmit or supply electricity;

(g)the undertaking of any navigation authority, harbour authority or conservancy authority;

(h)any public utility undertaking carried on by a local authority under any Act or under any order having the force of an Act.

[F2(j)the undertaking of any licensed operator, within the meaning of the Coal Industry Act 1994.]

(2)For the purposes of this Schedule any reference in this Schedule, in relation to any such airport as is mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(d) above, to the persons carrying on the undertaking is a reference to the airport operator.