50Private street works
Where apart from the provisions of section forty-seven of this Act a public path in existence at the passing of this Act would, for the purposes of any of the following enactments, that is to say—
(a)section one hundred and fifty of the Public Health Act, 1875, or
(b)the Private Street Works Act, 1892, or
(c)the corresponding provisions of any other Act (including a local Act),
be a street, or part of a street, not being a highway repairable by the inhabitants at large, nothing in the said section shall prevent a local authority carrying out, or requiring the carrying out of, work under any of the said enactments or recovering expenses thereof.