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Kent County Council (Filming on Highways) Act 2010

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5Power to place objects on highways

(1)Subject to the provisions of this section, the Council, as highway authority, may grant permission for any person making a film to place temporarily on the highway any object or thing required for the purposes of making a film.

(2)A person making a film shall not, in pursuance of a grant of permission under this section, place any object or thing on a bridge over a railway, or under a bridge carrying a railway over a highway or a public open space, or within four metres of the abutments of a bridge carrying a railway over a highway or a public open space, except with the consent of the railway undertakers concerned.

(3)In exercising their functions under this section the Council—

(a)shall take steps to prevent, so far as reasonably practicable, interference with vehicular and pedestrian traffic using the highway; and

(b)shall not grant any permission which would have the effect of obstructing or rendering less convenient—

(i)the access to or exit from premises belonging to canal, inland navigation, dock, harbour, tramway, or statutory undertakers, or persons authorised by any enactment to carry on any other public undertaking; or

(ii)the use by those undertakers or persons of such premises for the purposes of their undertaking.

(4)In subsection (3) above, “statutory undertakers” means any of the following—

(a)a licence holder within the meaning of Part 1 of the Electricity Act 1989 (c. 29);

(b)a public gas supplier within the meaning of Part 1 of the Gas Act 1986 (c. 44);

(c)a water undertaker within the meaning of the Water Industry Act 1991 (c. 56);

(d)a sewerage undertaker within Part 1 of the Water Industry Act 1991;

(e)a local authority which is a relevant authority for the purposes of section 97 of the Water Industry Act 1991.

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