Sewerage (Scotland) Act 1968

55 Application of Act to Crown premises.S

(1)The provisions of this section shall apply in relation to any premises belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown, or belonging to a government department, or held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department.

(2)The appropriate authority in relation to any premises and the [F1sewerage] authority for the area in which the premises are situated may agree that any provisions of this Act specified in the agreement shall apply to those premises and, while the agreement is in force, those provisions shall apply to the premises accordingly, subject however to the terms of the agreement.

(3)Any such agreement as aforesaid may contain such consequential and incidental provisions, including, with the approval of the Treasury, provisions of a financial character, as appear to the appropriate authority to be necessary or equitable, but agreements made by the Crown Estate Commissioners . . . F2 shall not require such approval.

(4)In this section “the appropriate authority” means—

(a)in the case of premises belonging to Her Majesty in right of the Crown, the Crown Estate Commissioners or other government department having the management of the premises in question; and

(b)in the case of premises belonging to a government department or held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department, that department;

and, if any question arises as to what authority is the appropriate authority in relation to any premises, that question shall be referred to the Treasury, whose decision shall be final.

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