Highways Act 1980

4 An order made with respect to—

(a) a bridge owned by railway undertakers which carries a highway over a railway of the undertakers, or carries both a highway and such a railway, or

(b) a bridge owned by dock undertakers or harbour undertakers, or

(c) a bridge, other than one falling within sub-paragraph (a) above, owned by the British Waterways Board and forming part of so much of the undertaking of that Board as corresponds to the undertaking of the Weaver Navigation Trustees prior to the vesting of that undertaking in the British Transport Commission (the predecessors of the British Waterways Board) under the [1947 c. 49.] Transport Act 1947,

shall not, without the consent of the owners of the bridge, either—

(i) require works for the reconstruction or improvement of the bridge to be carried out otherwise than by the owners, or

(ii) direct the bridge to be maintained otherwise than by the owners, or

(iii) transfer the property in the bridge to a highway authority, or

(iv) in the case of a swing bridge, direct the bridge to be operated otherwise than by the owners.