2(1)A public gas transporter shall be deemed to be a statutory undertaker and his undertaking a statutory undertaking for the purposes of the following enactments, namely—E+W+S
(i)the Public Health Act 1925;
(ii)the Public Health Act 1936;
(iii)the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) (Scotland) Act 1947;
(iv)section 4 of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1948;
(v)the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949;
(vi)the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951;
(vii)the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954;
(viii)the Opencast Coal Act 1958;
(ix)[the Flood Prevention (Scotland) Act 1961;]
(x)section 17(10) of the Public Health Act 1961;
(xi)the Pipe-lines Act 1962;
(xii)Schedule 3 to the Harbours Act 1964;
(xiii)[section 40 of the Forestry Act 1967;]
(xiv)section 50 of the Agriculture Act 1967;
(xv)sections 38 and 66 of the Countryside (Scotland) Act 1967;
(xvi)the New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968;
(xvii)section 11 of and paragraph 6 of Schedule 2 to the Countryside Act 1968;
(xviii)section 22 of the Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968;
(xix). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(xx)section 51 of the Land Compensation Act 1973;
(xxi)[section 47] of the Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973;
(xxii)section 73 of the Control of Pollution Act 1974;
(xxiii)the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975;
(xxiv)sections 15(3) and 26 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1976;
(xxv). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(xxvi)section 9(3) of the Inner Urban Areas Act 1978;
(xxvii)the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979;
(xxviii)[Part] XVI and section 120 of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980;
(xxix)the Highways Act 1980;
(xxx)the New Towns Act 1981;
(xxxi)the Acquisition of Land Act 1981;
(xxxii)the Civil Aviation Act 1982;
(xxxiii)section 30 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982;
(xxxiv)the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984;
(xxxv)the Building Act 1984;
(xxxvi)[section] 296 of the Housing Act 1985;
(xxxvii)section 21 of the Road Traffic Act 1988.
(xxxviii)section 9 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990;
(xxxix)section 7(5) of the Natural Heritage (Scotland) Act 1991.
(2)References to public gas suppliers in the following enactments shall have effect as references to a public gas transporter, namely—
(a)section 17(1)(b) of the Requisitioned Land and War Works Act 1945;
(b)the Local Government (Omnibus Shelters and Queue Barriers) (Scotland) Act 1958;
(c)section 7A(4)(b)(ii) of the Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1966;
(d)section 109(2)(d) of the Transport Act 1968;
(e). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(f)sections 73(11)(c) and 74(11)(b) of the Highways Act 1980;
(g)section 48(6)(c) of the Civil Aviation Act 1982;
(h)paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 to the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984;
(i)section 80(3)(b) of the Building Act 1984;
(j)section 91 of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990;
(k)section 39 of the Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act 1990;
(l)section 52(1) of the Coal Mining Subsidence Act 1991;
(m)section 209(3)(b) of and paragraph 1(5)(e) of Schedule 13 to the Water Industry Act 1991;
(n)section 208(3)(b) of and paragraph 1(4)(e) of Schedule 22 to the Water Resources Act 1991;
(o)paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule 6 to the Land Drainage Act 1991.
(3)The reference in Schedule 4 to the Public Health Act 1961 to gas undertakers shall have effect as a reference to a public gas transporter.
(4)References in the Landlord and Tenant Act 1927 to a statutory company shall be deemed to include references to a public gas transporter.
(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(6)References to public utility undertakers in the Highways Act 1980 shall be deemed to include references to a public gas transporter.
(7)[Part 10 of Schedule 3A to the Communications Act 2003 (the electronic communications code)] shall apply to a public gas transporter for the purposes of any works carried out by him.
(8)The reference in section 82(4) of the Building Act 1984 (provisions with respect to demolition orders) to a person authorised by an enactment to carry on an undertaking for the supply of gas shall be construed as a reference to a public gas transporter.
(9)References to public undertakers in section 125(7) of, and paragraphs 9 and 10 of Schedule 8 to, the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 shall be deemed to include references to a public gas transporter.
(10)In the following enactments, namely—
(a)section 39 of the Opencast Coal Act 1958;
(b)paragraph 2 of Schedule 6 to the Gas Act 1965;
(c)the New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968;
(d). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(e)the Welsh Development Agency Act 1975;
(f). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(g)the New Towns Act 1981;
(h)section 9 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990;
(i)section 7(5) of the Natural Heritage (Scotland) Act 1991,
(11)In the following enactments, namely—
(a)the Pipe-lines Act 1962;
(b)Schedule 3 to the Harbours Act 1964;
(c)section 121 of the Highways Act 1980; and
(d)the Acquisition of Land Act 1981,
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