C1 Part V Improvement of Highways
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
Safety provisions
67 Guard-rails etc. in private streets.
1
Subject to the provisions of this section, in any street which is not a highway maintainable at the public expense and which consists of or comprises a carriageway a local authority may provide and maintain such pillars, rails or fences as they think necessary for the purpose of safeguarding persons using the street.
2
The power under subsection (1) above to provide any works includes power to alter or remove them.
3
Schedule 8 to this Act (consents before carrying out work in streets) applies to the powers conferred on local authorities by this section.
4
A local authority shall pay compensation to any person who sustains damage by reason of the execution by them of works under this section.
Pt. V (ss. 62-105) extended (13.2.1992) by Severn Bridges Act 1992 (c. 3), s. 32(2)(a)