Transport Act 1962

61 Amendment of enactments relating to inland waterways

(1) As from the vesting date, section seventeen of the Regulation of Railways Act, 1873 (which requires the Commission to maintain certain inland waterways), shall have effect as if—

(a) the reference in that section to every railway company included a reference to the British Waterways Board, and

(b) for the references in that section to a canal there were substituted, in relation to that Board, references to any inland waterway comprised in the undertaking of the Board which was by virtue of the Transport Act, 1947, transferred to the Commission and which has not been closed to navigation by or under any statutory provision.

(2) Sections thirty-five and thirty-six of the Transport Act, 1947 (under which the Commission may apply a licensing system to canal carriers on an inland waterway belonging to them), shall cease to have effect.

(3) In section thirty-seven of the Transport Act, 1947 (which relates to the abandonment of inland waterways by the Commission), for references to the Commission there shall as from the vesting date be substituted references to the British Waterways Board.

(4) The definition of " statutory water undertakers " in subsection (1) of section fifty-nine of the Water Act, 1945, shall not include the British Waterways Board.